Bill Siwicki

Officers in Oklahoma can contact mental health professionals from their vehicles, avoiding ER visits and other risks. In the counties served by the virtual care program, there has been a 93.1% reduction in hospitalizations for mental health crises.

As a result, it can now more easily find clinical trial patients matching ultra-rare diseases or mind-boggling clinical requirements.

Launching telemedicine from within the patient portal – which enables the health system to get electronic signoff on certain documents – is a big boon for compliance and efficiency.

The health system’s Cedars-Sinai Connect primary care application has been especially effective, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski, who describes how he measures an app’s success and how his team is protecting against AI biases.

Craig Kwiatkowski is calibrating the pace of the health system's artificial intelligence adoption to ensure it's deploying generative AI safely and responsibly.

By 2030, there is projected to be a shortage of 120,000 cardiologists in the U.S. Combined with the decline in hospital beds and rising cost of heart failure, healthcare organizations need to find a way to detect heart failure earlier and at lower cost.

The system provides the data insights that enable the organization to close underutilized clinics and redirect patients to others nearby. Additionally, the finance teams have whittled down rent reporting from two months to a week.

Dr. Gauri Puri, chief business officer for healthcare at WNS, a global business process management company, offers a deep dive that can lead IT leaders at hospitals and health systems on the road to digital success.

A physician expert offers a look at the role virtual imaging can play in helping advance nuclear medicine expertise, driving progress in radiopharmaceuticals and enabling an expected surge in the medical isotope market driven by targeted cancer treatment.

Four telehealth experts discuss the roles of AI, collaboration, hybrid care, regulation and more as presented at this week's American Telemedicine Association annual conference.