Patient Engagement

A tour of a lab creating digital health tech to aid brain health – everything from robots to wearables and IOT devices to virtual reality and AI to adaptive robotic pets. Leading the tour: Casey Bennett, health informatics program chair at DePaul University.

More providers are finding artificial intelligence can reduce clinician burnout and lower recruiting costs. Meanwhile, tech vendors on the frontier of agentic AI innovation are looking to healthcare as a first use case.

According to research by the American Hospital Association, growing after-hours workloads and administrative tasks are leading contributors to clinician burnout.

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) continue to face challenges in hiring and staffing retention, compounded by patients’ shifting expectations. Best-in-Class HCOs with “next-gen” patient care programs that deliver excellent clinical results and patient experiences through deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are seeing significant performance success.

At the HIMSS25 Smart Health Transformation Forum, health system execs will explore value propositions of the latest digital tools. Esther Kim of Mass General Brigham, Kali Arduini Idhe of Northwestern Medicine and Marcee Chmait of Providence discuss.

Robust information security protocols and innovative solutions that can streamline operations, ensure scalability, and deliver cost-effective care are essential in this complex environment.

Initial findings from a three-year analysis from athenahealth suggest the idea that providers' use of digital patient outreach tools increase documentation burdens is a misconception.

Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs.

Ed Mitchell, director, strategic partnerships at Advocate Health, says simplifying technology choices and reducing technical debt can unlock opportunities to enhance patient engagement with improved experience design strategies.

Mayo Clinic's decentralized trials are investigating how to best integrate the clinical trial experience into a patient’s life and routine care, say researchers ahead of their HIMSS25 presentation.