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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.

Sarah Gloyne, RN, nurse supervisor of the innovation design unit at the Omaha-based health system, discusses how to make nurses happy with new technology and shares keys to success with a recent RTLS deployment.

The American Hospital Association, EHR Association, Premier, WEDI and ATA have weighed in on HHS' request for comment about digital health tools for Medicare beneficiaries, and on the current state of interoperability and health IT infrastructure. 

Dr Kun-Ju Lin, deputy information security chief at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou in Taiwan, will share real-world execution of their digital transformation strategies at HIMSS25 APAC. 

The combined deployment of an enterprise-wide electronic health record with business and clinical analytics helped a health system deliver better patient care, among other benefits.

Dr. Natalie Pageler, CHIO at Stanford Medicine Children's Health, discusses some factors for artificial intelligence deployments in this complex care modality and describes how applications such as ambient AI differ in pediatric and adult settings.

Clinicians are seeing a reduction in time spent on chart prep by up to 2.5 hours per day. And the organization has achieved an 84% addressed rate for all coding suggestions given to a provider within a patient encounter to enhance documentation.

"These are real lives, potentially extended or saved because an AI system surfaced the right data at the right time, and our teams were equipped to act on it," says the health system's COO. And the tech has helped boost the case closure rate by 50%.

Financially constrained hospitals and health systems need federal funding and support to augment their cybersecurity workforces, according to a Health Sector Coordinating Council report to HHS.

Dr. Justin Norden, CEO of a generative AI infrastructure company, warns hospitals and health systems to identify ROI, safety issues, risk, governance and long-term value when approaching AI systems and tools.