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Health systems today are looking at deploying emerging technologies like the metaverse and ChatGPT, but putting them to good use may be challenging, says Aster DM Healthcare Group CIO Veneeth Purushotaman.

By reducing the number of flowsheets and their content, they've made documentation more than 10 minutes faster. Across two years, the number of best practice alerts for nursing was reduced by 86%.

Virtuoso is a digital front door technology that can integrate health system data into a unified healthcare platform, the vendor says, and is designed to expand patient and family access to medical services.

Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward to at the HIMSS APAC conference this year.

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs broke records by achieving HIMSS stage 7 in four models concurrently. Raed Alhamze explores the impact on patient outcomes.

More than two-thirds of the health system's abdominal CTs, chest MRIs and PET-CTs now have interactive links to key findings – and radiologists are finding that capability hugely useful, its associate CMIO reports.

Anjali Kataria, Mytonomy CEO and cofounder, says that content streaming and AI can empower patients at home and help hospitals and health systems improve their patient education materials as they reduce the time nurses spend answering questions.

The healthcare giant will expand its work with Google to help automate workflows and streamline documentation for ED physicians, among other initial use cases.

According to the UK's Dr Shafi Ahmed, to meet the workforce squeeze, health systems need to plan better, change training radically and introduce flexible career paths that allow for periods of teaching or innovating.

"As AI capabilities continue to improve, health systems will be able to provide a more seamless, coordinated and comprehensive experience for each patient," says the chief technology officer of BD.