Artificial Intelligence

HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf and Clalit Chief Innovation Officer Ran Balicer discuss AI's promise and the challenge of starting with clean information for predictive modeling applications.

The best way it can help is by not making the problem worse, says Andrew Eye, cofounder and CEO of ClosedLoop.ai.

Connecticut Office of Health Strategy is a think tank around health policy in the state, says Sumit Sajnani, health information technology officer at the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy.  

AI robots at Multicare evolve in their learning of tasks such as picking up supplies and making lab deliveries, says CFO James Lee.

In his 50 years of attending HIMSS events, Dan Soule, VP of technology operations at Health Catalyst, has seen an evolution in the EHR, clinical advances, AI innovation and attention to health equity.

Clinical documentation improvement, or CDI, eases burden for fewer clicks, greater efficiencies, more time with patients at bedside and family at home, says Tami McMasters Gomez, director of Coding and Clinical Documentation Integrity Services at UC Davis Medical Center.  

Prompting action requires more than sending reminders to patients about wellness and other healthcare visits, CEO says.

Telehealth providers have until August 12 to come into OCR compliance, with the end of PHE provisions, says HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Rainer.  

AI built into the EHR can be used for clinical decision support to give a better understanding to patient treatment, says R. Ryan Sadeghian, CMIO of Hunterdon Healthcare System.

Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld is sworn in as the first openly gay person to serve as AMA president.