Workflow
Proposals would require Veterans Affairs to contractually prohibit the sale of patient information and report on electronic health record workflow benchmarks, quality metrics and resources provided to VA facilities ahead of new installations.
Sara Meinke and Asad Tariq of Baptist Health say they took an outcomes-driven approach to lessening clinicians' burden, helping reach the highest level of the community care maturity model.
Nurses and physicians report significant workflow improvements over the past year, according to a new KLAS report, but say slow response times, unproductive charting and excessive messaging still need to be addressed.
Nursing and IT
Panissa Caldwell, RN, the health system’s director of clinical services, explains how telehealth, artificial intelligence and other tools can help nurses make the most of their educations and careers.
Convening thought leadership and promoting maturity models that measure integration success are just two of the ways HIMSS is helping support and advance AI across the healthcare industry, said President and CEO Hal Wolf at HIMSS25 Europe.
Execs are eager to use genAI to optimize workflow and improve clinical sustainability, but a readiness gap persists.
Working with hellocare.ai, the health system's Florida campus will co-develop ambient clinical intelligence to improve inpatient care and reduce clinician workloads.
Informatics leaders also have to be closely invested in their organization's goals, says Dr. Robert W. Warren, who offers advice drawn from a long career on bridging clinical and technological roles, making tough decisions and being a team leader.
In part two of our new Emerging Technologies Series, Morgan Cheatham, partner and head of healthcare and life sciences at Breyer Capital, highlights the venture capital firm's rigorous evaluation of a technology's potential for maturation.
The technology, which has been deployed ahead of schedule after an "aggressive timeline to scale AI agency-wide," is meant to boost productivity for clinical protocol reviews, scientific evaluations and more.