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While sharing insights on the medical device industry in China at HIMSS23, David Chen, director of business development for Shine Technology, stresses the importance of partnering to further new technologies.
It's crucial to pool resources to improve outcomes during times of crisis, says Dr. Monica Bharel, advanced clinical senior public health advisor and former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
A shortage of skilled nursing is disrupting care delivery nationwide. The workforce challenge is not going away, and will require creative approaches, including virtual care, says Wendy Deibert, chief nursing officer at Caregility.
Health Care Service Corporation is using augmented intelligence to accelerate prior authorization – up to 1,400 times faster – and an AI tool that references historical authorizations and claims to authorize treatment "within seconds," the company says.
The New York hospital's vice chairman of urology and robotics operations explains how a new surgical intelligence platform digs into surgery video to help understand outcomes and improve care.
Also, SA Health is launching an e-Referrals system based on Salesforce and Mulesoft.
Eleven healthcare organizations have also joined the Data Usability Taking Root project, which is designed to improve the quality and actionability of health information received by end users within their workflows.
Dr. Adrienne Boissy, Qualtrics' chief medical officer and staff neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic, explains that, because consumers are making value-based decisions and care about privacy, they should be codesigning healthcare AI.
Discussing the value and potential disruption of generative AI for healthcare, the chief medical information officer sees big value ahead from large language models, but says he's taking a cautiously deliberative approach to deploying them.
The study of 1.7 billion clinical notes over a three-year period found an increase in the use of digital tools and copy/paste functionality correlated with longer notes and a decrease in the average time spent writing notes.