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In response to a new price cap law in Indiana, Hal Andrews, CEO of Trilliant Health, says once a state legislature is allowed to determine maximum reimbursement, hospitals are subject to that being changed any time the legislature gets together.
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Edward Marx, CEO of Marx Advisory, recommends that healthcare leaders looking to drive innovation in their organizations become innovative themselves by bringing their C-suite to meet with and learn from partners.
Anne Osdoit, CEO of Moon Surgical, discusses the company’s Maestro surgical robotics system and how it supports surgeons during soft tissue procedures.
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From documenting bedside prayers to helping a hard-of-hearing nurse connect with patients, AI tools are revealing the importance of nurses' and patients' emotional and spiritual bonds to healing, says Mercy's Tracy Breece.
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According to Tony DiGiorgio, chief architect at Symplr, the company has carefully embedded AI into its operational platform to cut administrative redundancy and enable nurses to minimize the number of systems they use each day.
Nissan Elimelech, founder of Augmedics, shares how the company's augmented reality surgical technology projects an anatomically accurate 3D spine onto the patient, helping surgeons operate with their eyes on the body instead of a screen.
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Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications, says centralizing health system data provides nurses with a "bigger picture" of operations so they can uncover trends that can improve care delivery.
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Sara Meinke and Asad Tariq of Baptist Health discuss how a predictive analytics tool has helped reduce patient wait times and enabled nurses to have uninterrupted lunch breaks, increasing patient and staff satisfaction.
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Cooper University Health Care's Dr. Michael Kirchhoff says the health system's hackathon brings together coders, clinicians and other professionals to create and pitch grassroots programs that address social determinants of health.
A global outage on Thursday disrupted a range of services, including several AI tools widely used in healthcare, such as Vertex AI, Dialogflow CX, Agent Assist and Contact Center AI.