Bill Siwicki

A strong therapeutic alliance can be created virtually – most critically, telepsychiatry helps patients feeling the serious effects of a mental health issue get better quickly, notes the CMO of the company behind the peer-reviewed research.

With customized EHR dashboards, the health system identifies metrics critical for accountable care so it can support all its providers – it's seen 200% growth in the past three years – with a tailored approach to caring for their patients.

Even the best algorithm could still need months to verify its performance, a healthcare systems expert says. So IT leaders should ensure they budget for the training process whenever they evaluate any artificial intelligence technology.

Large language models can provide a big boost here for providers, says the CEO of Medicomp. But algorithms should be trained on hierarchical condition categories for risk adjustment – and challenges with data quality and bias need addressing.

The health system's medical director will offer more perspective on how remote patient monitoring is helping, including enabling an adherence rate of 80% to daily vitals, at HIMSS24.

And this year there will be a focus on continuing access to medications for mental health because mental health is a critical part of overall health, predicts a psychiatrist who practices telehealth.

And the tool deployed at Arizona-based SimonMed, which complements the work of subspecialty-trained radiologists, has a 96.9% to 100% sensitivity range per bone, research shows.

Automation is helping staff save time and reducing the potential for keyboard errors, its CIDO says. Artificial intelligence is also enhancing medication history data for 81% of all available home medications so patient records contain fewer gaps.

At HIMSS24, a clinician will show how the community provider’s more enlightened, person-centered approach for its Native American and POC patients has helped reduce the number of custody holds for drug and alcohol emergencies by more than 90%.

The models developed by Stanford Medicine Children’s Health have been so effective that Epic has incorporated a similar guardrail into its own system, extending the impact of Stanford's work to teens worldwide.