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The enhanced membership program offers access to proprietary research, maturity assessment tools, professional development and other resources to help healthcare organizations with digital transformation.

Since 2016, the 200-member IT team of Narayana Health in India has built smart and mobile solutions for patients and staff, says IT VP Jagadeesh Ramasamy.

Besides saving significant time and cost, Taichung Veterans General Hospital also has the shortest emergency patient stay in Taiwan, shares computer and communications center director Lai-Shiun Lai.

The sprawling health system believes artificial intelligence should never replace the judgment of clinicians and must be carefully assessed, says Dr. Daniel Yang, who offers a closer look at Kaiser's successful rollout of a genAI tool for clinicians, among other insights.

Generative AI and other technologies can help ease the clinician shortage by augmenting the work of doctors and nurses and offering significant outcomes, says Accenture Health Strategy Lead Brian P. Kalis.

Zachary Durst, IT practice consultant at WittKieffer, explains how the past two years have seen a significant increase in the number of new AI leadership roles as health systems seek opportunities to advance AI projects more strategically.

Twenty-eight hours a week is a lot to spend on administrative tasks. And it takes away from time with patients, notes Google Cloud's healthcare vertical lead Aashima Gupta.  

Most expect greater revenues and improved profitability, according to Deloitte data.

Because we're still in the early days of artificial intelligence transforming the patient care environment, it's imperative to watch its impacts closely, says Oriana Beaudet, VP of nursing innovation at the American Nurses Association.

Interoperability capabilities are available, but ushering patient data exchange and speeding up time to care are matters of provider change management and embracing digital transformation, says Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies.