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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

For Global Health Equity Week, Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa, director of innovation at UC Davis Health and co-chair of the HIMSS SDOH Committee, explains how AI is transforming how social and digital determinant information is incorporated and surfaced.

At the helm of Taiwan's national smart health project, the National Science and Technology Council facilitates partnerships between university hospitals and the ICT industry. Andrea Hsu, director general at the agency, discusses.

From preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance to visualization and predictive analytics, AI has many new roles to play to help surgeons do their best work.

Cybersecurity expert Richard Staynings of the University of Denver says the clinical information used for AI-enabled decision support models needs to be protected – but that's a tall order with so much of it to manage.  

A virtual nursing success story emerges from a large New York health system, and examples of the kinds of care coordination services that virtual nurses can handle during message triage, from Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare.

Also, Australia's aged care research centre has received additional funding to deploy AI.

Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.

Virtual reality holds huge potential, says Adam Hutchinson, founder and CEO of oVRcome, which recently ran a trial of its self-guided tool for social anxiety. He discusses the goal of closing the gap in access to VR treatment for providers and patients.