Bill Siwicki

Dr. Ronald Rodriguez of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio shows how medical education today can benefit from additional work in AI and discusses how his groundbreaking dual degree program may influence the industry.

Third-party security vendor risk mitigation is another imperative as health systems rely on more and more technologies, says Barry Mathis of healthcare management consulting firm PYA.

The annual wellness visit and breast cancer screening campaigns show how a health system can succeed with value-based care. The provider also achieved a more than 28% improvement in care-gap closures.

The 51-hospital health system improved patient throughput in the ED for behavioral health patients, reduced door-to-needle times for stroke patients and enabled rural hospitals to retain more patients through increased specialist access.

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.

The health systems' MyCare Anywhere app fuses the Epic EHR, MyChart, telemedicine, expert health content, self-guided health journeys and more. MetroHealth has done 27,000 virtual visits with thousands of referrals in the first year.

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.

Artificial intelligence alone is not the answer, says Charles Worthington of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Connecting AI-enabled insights like risk scoring to a larger healthcare program is what helps move the needle on outcomes.

The payoff behind artificial intelligence, the expertise of virtual CISOs and the tactics of successful device management – Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at healthcare consulting firm CereCore, spells out the benefits and the challenges.

Dr. Natalie Pageler, CHIO at Stanford Medicine Children's Health, discusses some factors for artificial intelligence deployments in this complex care modality and describes how applications such as ambient AI differ in pediatric and adult settings.