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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.

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.

Broad access to artificial intelligence has quickly evolved a new arms race in which healthcare security teams should implement AI from the ground up in their platforms and processes – and hold vendors' "feet to the fire" – to keep up with threats.

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. 

A new tool can provide healthcare customer service representatives with real-time financial data on patients to guide more empathetic conversations about payment options, says RevSpring President Nicole Rogas.

Seventy percent of calls require no human intervention. Data is free of human error. Providers save more than two hours per day. Staff no longer are tied up on calls and patients are kept out of phone trees – no one is placed on hold.

Kyruus Health's technology helps simplify the process of searching for care via multiple online sources by determining patients' desired location and type of care, explains Gen Conlin, the company's senior director of clinical services.