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The Boston health system's director of AI operations discusses some challenges and best practices for integrating large language models into research and operational tasks while explicitly excluding direct clinical care.

Prolonged understaffing in clinical laboratories threatens to compromise patient care, but deployment of automation and artificial intelligence technologies could offer a lifeline to burned out lab workers.

AI-powered radiology tools aren't yet ready to make diagnoses; they must return accurate results and save time to be truly useful to burned-out radiologists, says Dr. Benoit Desjardins, University of Pennsylvania radiology professor.

The health IT society has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea's Health Information Service that HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf hopes will help measure Korean hospitals' digital maturity and support their workforce development.

New insights from a recent roundtable discussion see stakeholders recognizing the need to balance the promise of artificial intelligence with "ethical considerations, patient engagement and robust regulatory frameworks.

Several factors combined to hit healthcare hardest again this year, but new research by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security also found that using artificial intelligence in security reduced attacks' severity in terms of cost and recovery time.

Integrating analytics and care coordination recommendations into EHR workflows has helped reduce lengths of stay, says the health system's COO – lowering costs, boosting patient access and reducing burdens for nurses and other clinicians.

Stanford Health Care's Troy Foster believes the technology has enormous potential but still is a work in progress. He explains why providers will need to properly socialize and monitor the rollout and implementation of ambient voice.

The hospital group has recently demonstrated EMR and IT infrastructure maturity above the regional and global averages.

American Association of Nurse Practitioners president Stephen A. Ferrara says technology is fundamentally transforming the nursing profession. To show how, he discusses an intriguing new AI project he's working on at Columbia University School of Nursing.