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Billed as more than 10 times the scale of previous endeavors, the Truveta Genome Project aims to ensure representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders and other social drivers of health – and broaden the reach of precision medicine.

Artificial intelligence has elevated the quality and efficiency of documentation, improved the completeness of that documentation and reduced charting time significantly. It has also enabled more attentive and personalized care.

This month, companies including Oracle, Medtronic, Atropos, Elation, LeanTaas, Palantir and more released artificial intelligence and virtual reality enhancements that offer health systems a menu of efficiency tools. 

At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in Brooklyn next month, keynote speaker Tom Lawry will offer some no-nonsense perspective on the steps health systems need to take to make the most of their artificial intelligence investments.

Amid funding cuts and thin financial margins, health systems can rely on AI to reveal millions in uncaptured revenue.

Its omnipresence in presentations and forums in Las Vegas this past March shows that it's now poised to deliver real value for healthcare organizations, says Prashant Natarajan, Velatura Public Benefit Corporation's chief AI officer.

The Illinois-based health system has, among many wins, retained 2,400 clinicians and staff who, by traditional patterns, it would not have expected to stay. And it has seen more than a 200% return on every dollar spent on employee tuition.

With virtual reality and generative artificial intelligence infused in nurse training programs, students hone their documentation skills and gain more confidence in patient care, says North Carolina Central University's Tina Scott. 

Clinicians can accelerate digital tech adoption by identifying challenges, working with IT staff to find tools that can help and engaging key stakeholders to vet those tools, says Penn Medicine's Anna Schoenbaum.