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Peter Shen, North America head of digital and automation at Siemens Healthineers, says that as the use of AI tools in healthcare advances, companies must train algorithms on data that reflects the patient populations they will serve.
Northern Health in Melbourne has replaced its legacy system with AI-assisted coding.
Keeping focused on why they do their work can help health IT professionals serve patient populations more effectively, says Luis Belén, CEO of the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved and a HIMSS25 Changemaker.
Cedars-Sinai Chief Data and AI Officer Mouneer Odeh offers some of the best ways the Chief AI Officer can work with the C-suite to get AI done right and gives some tips to health IT executives seeking the chief AI officer position.
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Chief Data and AI Officer Mouneer Odeh says work on artificial intelligence is like a snowball going downhill – over the next five to 10 years it will build and build until the scale of the impact meets what healthcare requires.
Dr. Tamara Sunbul, digital health transformation and innovation strategic advisor in Saudi Arabia and a HIMSS25 Changemaker, says clinicians can blend clinical and IT expertise to help patients improve their wellness.
The mass layoffs have severely undercut essential IT, policy and contracting functions, and sources say they fear critical expertise has been lost. The government could hire contractors to fill the gaps, putting ousted employees in an ethical bind.
Healthcare needs its workforce to be skilled in AI, says Bob Dichter, founder and career coach at Phoenix Rising Career Services, who encourages IT professionals to use artificial intelligence tools to help solve their organizations' challenges.
CIOs and other healthcare technology decision-makers polled by Stoltenberg Consulting say reimbursement and workforce challenges are also top of mind as they continue to invest in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and more.
With its Nursing Research and Innovation Council fostering the use of digital tools and the hospital training staff in employing artificial intelligence, it is improving tech adoption, says Debra Beauregard of Rady Children's Health.