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For AI adoption, healthcare board members need to be users of AI, they need to determine the organization’s risk tolerance and there should be strategic alignment with the system’s mission, says Edward Marx, CEO of Marx Advisory.

The Chief AI Officer is the latest link between IT and clinical care, as CMIOs were needed 20 years ago during the push to EHR adoption, says Christopher Kunney, a partner at IOTech Consulting.

According to Dr. Srinivasan Suresh of UPMC Children's Hospital, an AI tool developed in-house is hoping to identify sepsis earlier in patients, and others are being tested for use in autism, ADHD and diabetes education.

Informatics and health IT are not synonymous but inextricably linked, says longtime informaticist Dr. Jonathan M. Sternlieb, who has been a clinician for 35 years.

Rochester Regional Health recently completed a pilot of an ambient digital scribe with 300 providers that will be implemented in the health system, says Dr. Everett Weiss, medical director for health informatics.

An estimated 3,000 workers are temporarily being called back on Monday, October 27.

The layoff announcement comes after the health system posted close to a $200M operating loss.

Democrats are holding out on coming to a budget deal over continued subsidies for ACA plans and cuts to Medicaid.

The University of Toledo's Dr. R. Ryan Sadeghian says hospitals may not always need a chief AI officer; having a trusted leader who understands data science, is respected by physicians and has the board's confidence is more important.

"Suki for Nurses" integrates diverse EHRs to clinical workflows.