Artificial Intelligence

Clinical and technology leaders from leading health systems compared notes and learned together at the HIMSS25 AI in Healthcare Forum.

Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.

The global Health Care sector is undergoing a period of unprecedented transformation, driven by technological advancements, demographic shifts, and evolving patient needs. With several key trends poised to shape the future of health care delivery.

Susan Monarez, current acting director at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has previous experience in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and worked at ARPA-H on AI applications for pop health and quality improvement. 

The joint institute with Duke-NUS Medical School aims to promote research, governance, education, and commercialisation of AI in healthcare.

It has also revealed ongoing work applying AI to track medical resource utilisation in real time.

The health system is establishing a new center for artificial intelligence to enhance diagnostics, personalize treatments and optimize healthcare delivery for adolescents – and plans to implement clinical trials at the Kravis Children’s Hospital.

In this roundtable, healthcare leaders will discuss AI’s evolution and how AI and analytics are leveraged to improve patient outcomes, advance research, streamline operations, and enrich the clinical and patient experience.

A study published in medRxiv reveals that inference techniques including chain-of-thought and search augmented generation can reduce AI hallucination rates.

Chris Whelchel, a consultant with expertise in helping health systems with these varied challenges, shares advice that CIOs and other IT leaders at provider organizations can put into place now to help achieve results.