Clinical

Efforts are being made to find ways to notify clinicians about possible medication errors without overloading them. First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz explain.  

CIO Craig Kwiatkowski describes some of the artificial intelligence tools in use at the Los Angeles health system – and shows how teams are employing an AI-powered primary care app to train on datasets that reflect diverse populations.

Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, talks about what to expect at the 2024 HIMSS European Health Conference & Exhibition, including a deep dive into legislation expectations, such as the AI Act and the European Recovery and Resilience Fund.

Craig Kwiatkowski is taking the FAVES approach: fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe. He says this also helps from an adoption perspective.  

Mette Maria Skjøth, RN, department head at the Dermatology and Allergy Centre of Denmark's Odense University Hospital, discusses potential uses for AI tools, including early detection of sepsis and infectious diseases.

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.

Dr Georgi Chaltikyan of Germany's Deggendorf Institute of Technology says he believes teaching healthcare staff how to use AI technologies that automate workflows would help reduce burnout and lead to better patient outcomes.

MITConn Consulting's principal health IT strategist, Dr. Reza Ryan Sadeghian, discusses the GPT apps his team created to help medical students access references and virtual tutoring and to streamline clinical documentation.  

Start addressing the distrust communities of color have for the healthcare system by creating a pipeline of clinicians from those communities, advises Christopher Kunney, advocacy chair for HIMSS Georgia chapter and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.  

Bart de Witte, founder of Hippo AI Foundation, discusses challenges of developing open-source healthcare AI models, including the need to build them on quality management systems and the difficulty of accessing clinical data for training.