Bill Siwicki
Nursing and IT
American Association of Nurse Practitioners president Stephen A. Ferrara says technology is fundamentally transforming the nursing profession. To show how, he discusses an intriguing new AI project he's working on at Columbia University School of Nursing.
With help from Oracle, Innovaccer and Salesforce, the South Florida provider is scoring big population health wins, including a 7% increase in coding gap closure rate and a 17% increase in annual wellness visit completion rates.
AI-enabled computer vision could be a game-changer, says one CEO, who also discusses the risks of generative AI and the promise of automated transcription, which is already proving itself.
Justin Ryan, director and research scientist in the Webster Foundation 3D Innovations Lab at Rady Children's Hospital, gives a deep dive on the creation and application of this complex tool made user-friendly for any provider.
Implementing AI in healthcare settings requires thoughtful consideration of the problems it aims to solve and a clear understanding of the potential impacts on clinical workflows and provider wellbeing, the digital health chief advises.
Further, the health system's cardiac MRI services grew by 42% – which significantly improved access to specialized care for patients, says AdventHealth's VP of imaging services.
AmeriPro Health says its homegrown artificial intelligence-enabled predictive modeling technology is driving everything it does – and helping its hospital partners significantly increase their patient throughput.
One of the top authorities on pop health, Dr. Michael Dulin of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, explains how AI can curate complex data, evaluate risk and predict changes.
At the upcoming HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, Chief Information and Digital Officer Sunil Dadlani will speak to other C-suite leaders about bridging the gap between artificial intelligence-enabled security and cyber defense.
"By relying on the AI technology to convert information into discrete data elements in our Epic EHR, we have significantly reduced the amount of manual entry required by our staff," an inpatient pharmacy operations supervisor reports.