Clinical

MITConn Consulting's principal health IT strategist, Dr. Reza Ryan Sadeghian, discusses the GPT apps his team created to help medical students access references and virtual tutoring and to streamline clinical documentation.  

Start addressing the distrust communities of color have for the healthcare system by creating a pipeline of clinicians from those communities, advises Christopher Kunney, advocacy chair for HIMSS Georgia chapter and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.  

Bart de Witte, founder of Hippo AI Foundation, discusses challenges of developing open-source healthcare AI models, including the need to build them on quality management systems and the difficulty of accessing clinical data for training.

RPM tools and other user-friendly tech are enabling a paradigm shift in care delivery, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, CMO at Biofourmis, who says it's also important to be educated on the pain points associated of home care.

Marco Marchetti, head of the HTA operational unit at AGENAS, says the country is introducing artificial intelligence to assist physicians in analyzing large volumes of clinical data from digital applications and medical devices.

Results from an annual healthcare cybersecurity survey from HIMSS show why healthcare organizations need adaptable security strategies, perhaps including analog file backups, reports Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.

Kathleen McGrow, the tech giant’s chief nursing information officer, highlights the HIMSS innovation nursing advisory group, a framework on AI literacy for nurses, and education around AI innovation and leveraging the technology.

How Azalea Health's telehealth and EHR tools integrate with partners' remote patient monitoring and chronic care management products to treat patients living in rural care deserts, shows Khue Tran, chief strategy officer.

Provider organizations first should do the basics, such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and conducting a security risk analysis, advises Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin.  

Orbis International has partnered with surgical training company FundamentalVR to train students in ophthalmic surgery to treat cataracts using VR. Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis, explains.