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The physician does the prescription in the background, Surescripts asks the PBM for prior auth approval and the information is pulled from the EHR, all within 30 seconds, says Matt Koehler, VP of product innovation at Surescripts.
The compelling nature of what's possible is offset by the trepidation of potential patient harm, says HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer Anne Snowdon.
Underpayment is one of the most damaging issues financially for hospitals reporting that over a year, 32% of claims were underpaid, representing $5B in lost revenue, says John Yount, Chief Innovation Officer, FinThrive.
In the discussion of build vs buy, organizations should take advantage of applications by vendors that are ready to go and determine whether they have in-house expertise, says Yesha Patel, data scientist at Keck Medicine of USC.
In rural markets, the biggest factors hindering cybersecurity efforts are resource allocation and expertise, says DRH Health VP and COO Roger Neal.
Key factors are if AI is shown to reduce nursing burnout and educating staff on what the tech can and can't do, says Stephen Ferrara, associate dean of AI at Columbia University and past president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
IT helps nurses reduce their documentation burden and it's up to them to make sure the tech is running as effectively as possible, says Eric Gasser, RN, VP of IS and CIO at Wooster Community Hospital Health System.
Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, can be asymptomatic, so patients are sent home with virtual cardiac monitors, says Sukrti Nagpal, deputy CMO of virtual care provider Doccla, and Yosef Safi Harb, founder and CEO of health monitoring company Happitech.
If leaders are not looking at the whole enterprise, AI projects will fail to be successful, says Dr. Deepti Pandita, CMIO & VP of Clinical Informatics at University of California Irvine Health.
Execs are ready for enterprise scale adoption to embed AI into workflows and demonstrate true ROI, says Carolyn Magill, venture partner at Define Ventures.