Clinical
The new artificial intelligence enhancements for healthcare promise to unlock conversational data for clinical insights and support app development, reporting, imaging and other use cases while enhancing trustworthiness.
HIMSS24 APAC
APAC health system leaders reveal best practices in EMR implementation.
Patients have always been at the top of mind of Samsung Medical Center and its digitalisation agenda, shares CTO Jong-Soo Choi.
Dr. Shreya Shah, medical informatics director at Stanford Health Care, says higher-value, lower-risk use cases like automated draft replies to patient messages and ambient AI scribes are improving the care experience for providers.
Just like airline pilots, physicians will come to rely more on automation – but pilots and doctors always will be needed, MedPearl's physician founder says.
Most health systems experienced a cyberattack in the last year, the new Ponemon Institute report shows, with 69% of victims citing poor patient outcomes. Business-email compromise and ransomware were reported to be the biggest culprits in care impacts.
The 2024 HIMSS Davies Award is another feather in Samsung Medical Center's cap. CMIO Dr Mira Kang discusses.
Success Stories & ROI
Once they're found, "we can systematically improve processes," says the health system's patient experience lead, helping move the needle on quality improvement, team member engagement and more.
Nursing and IT
Hadassah Backman, RN, is a nurse CEO who says artificial intelligence could do a lot to help RNs with relentless documentation burden, while also helping organizations boost revenue and improve compliance.
Cleveland Clinic Chief Analytics Officer Albert Marinez says generative AI holds huge potential, but a lot of challenges can still be solved with machine learning and predictive analytics.