clinical AI

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.

Through working with global leaders, educating its members and developing digital transformation tools for health systems, Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says HIMSS encourages the ethical and practical integration of AI in healthcare.

Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki, says AI is a fundamental technology that changes hospitals', physicians' and patients' healthcare experience, impacting every aspect, including care delivery, patient summarization and the revenue cycle.

Tom Liddell, Harmony Healthcare IT CEO, says the company's AI-powered clinical registry automation tool is already delivering results for clients and will be featured in an upcoming HIMSS book on AI innovation.

Rajiv Kolagani, chief data and AI officer at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, discusses the importance of change management when implementing generative AI and the steps necessary to implement the technology successfully.

As AI technology continues to evolve, Abhinav Shashank, Innovaccer CEO, says IT leaders must stay focused on ensuring that all AI tools are ethically trained, tested and deployed and that their desired outcomes are clearly defined.

While clinicians are seeing positive results from AI tools such as ambient listening, Anurag Mehta, Omega Healthcare CEO, believes healthcare won't realize AI's full potential until data-security fears are overcome.

While AI can fix clinical documentation efficiency, traditional interventions such as improving culture can be another solution to physician burnout, says Dr. Anwar Jebran, medical director of population health informatics at Oak Street Health.

While AI technology shows promise for automating administrative tasks, Julie Frey, vice president of provider product at Wolters Kluwer, recommends caution in deploying AI, particularly generative AI, for clinical use cases.

Video data is being used for quality assurance and improvement while AI provides insights and information which helps physicians learn more about surgery, say Transform Health Partners' Dr. Peter Billing and Medtronic's George Murgatroyd.