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Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veteran Affairs, offers IT leaders at hospitals and health systems powerful advice for succeeding with artificial intelligence.

The technology, homegrown at Stanford Medicine, allows users of its electronic health record to do voice-based queries, helping make chart reviews and other routine tasks more efficient.

A trained surgeon and public health leader, this upcoming HIMSS25 APAC speaker has helped bridge public-private partnerships for digital transformation in healthcare.

What began as an ONC initiative now independently supports a secure EHR-based communication network and accredits health technology, explains Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

Four FQHCs and one community hospital are learning from each other as they navigate various artificial intelligence implementations. Leaders from the Health AI Partnership will discuss their experiences at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in July. 

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.

With VNAs, universal viewers and patient portals, the Cleveland health system is enabling easier sharing of images with the providers and patients who need them, says Dr. David Kaelber, chief health informatics officer at MetroHealth.

Also, Tend Health has received funding to deliver the New Zealand government's new digital mental health and addiction service.  

Also, a new centre for excellence in AI in healthcare will be set up by two public universities in India.

The AI, trained on around 13,000 fundus images from over 600 Alzheimer's patients, has demonstrated up to 92% accuracy.