Clinical

Oklahoma Heart Hospital's David Miles talks all-digital's impact on care delivery, patient experience and healthcare outcomes – and much more.

SMC Telogorejo Hospital has introduced a chatbot as part of its contact centre, which was found to be particularly helpful for its senior patients, notes president director Dr Alice Sutedjo Lisa.

Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Montreal, explains that attacks haven't changed. The interconnectedness of hospitals with each other and third parties means that, when one is impacted, the entire health system can be affected.

The effort aims to accelerate the London Clinic’s infrastructure improvements and growth ambitions while building on Northwestern's world-renowned expertise to help enhance patient care.

Tenet Physician Resources will use AI to integrate clinical workflows, reducing administrative burden.

George Pappas, healthcare cybersecurity expert and CEO of Intraprise Health, says HIPAA is just a baseline for new state regulations that include incident reporting within 72 hours.

Nearly half of FDA-approved AI medical devices haven't been trained on real patient data. Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, offers solutions to this challenge, and explains problems with using synthetic data.

Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth.

Dr. Kathy Ku is vice president at Vive Collective, a venture capital firm focused on digital health. Kathy is an entrepreneur, an engineer and a former consultant. She holds an MD/MBA from Stanford, where she was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, and an AB/SM from Harvard, where she studied engineering sciences and molecular and cellular biology. In other words, she's pretty smart. And she's got a suggestion to the C-suites and boards at hospitals and health systems across the country: Get caregivers involved in the allocation of investment dollars. In this week's HIMSSCast, Ku will expand on this idea, while also discussing the current deals landscape, hybrid care models in telemedicine, the next 12 months in healthcare AI, and innovation in government institutions to benefit the country's public health sector.   Like what you hear? Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Amazon Music. Talking points: Healthcare needs to see more nurses, pharmacists, physicians and other caregivers influence the allocation of investment dollars and be involved in health IT companies. How can these individuals – as well as C-suite leaders – make this happen at their organizations? Fewer and smaller deals in the near term. Telehealth: Balance virtual care with in-person care, hybrid care models could be the future. The next 12 months in the realm of healthcare AI. Innovation in government institutions is crucial for the country's public health sector; public-private partnerships could be the key. More about this episode: Telehealth, hybrid care adding to physicians' EHR workload More hybrid virtual care and asynchronous telemedicine on the way for 2024 Developing an effective hybrid care strategy for telehealth Artificial intelligence is enabling big advances in surgery Why won't this expert's clients sign onto AI projects for more than 12 months at a time? Chief AI Officer: Healthcare's hot new role demands a rare combination of skill sets How to apply responsible artificial intelligence in healthcare

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