Quality and Safety

Dr. Tim O'Connell, physician CEO of emtelligent, offers his view of what's needed to ensure artificial intelligence can work safely, effectively and transparently in healthcare settings.

OpenNotes and Abridge want to find out, as they team up for a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project to assess and develop new clinical documentation tools powered by artificial intelligence.

Greg Garcia, executive director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, says breaches have increased 250% over the past five years – and ransomware attacks are up 280%. Here's what health systems can do in response.

This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.

Andy Sajous, a leader in digital transformation, explains. He discusses the trade-offs of building versus buying artificial intelligence tools and describes some crucial actions CIOs should take going into 2025.

Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC head and current chief strategy officer of 1upHealth, says the fundamental point of star ratings is balancing the interest of patients with that of taxpayers.

The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, and to making up sentences and sections of text across millions of recordings. Tens of thousands of transcriptions could be faulty.

In what it's calling "one of the most ambitious initiatives in its 250-year history," NewYork-Presbyterian has launched a new $2 billion capital campaign that has advanced technologies and digital transformation as core goals. WHY IT MATTERS With its For Every Future initiative, NYP hopes to raise that sum by the end of 2028 as it aims to capitalize on a "pivotal moment in medicine, with artificial intelligence and new technologies pushing the boundaries of what's possible, from catching heart failure before it happens to detecting cancer earlier." Additionally, the big-ticket capital campaign will be targeted toward "transformative" new clinical spaces at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the health system says, and a "state-of-the-art" ambulatory space in nearby White Plains. The goal is to invest heavily in "talent and technology to bring the healthcare of the future to the present," according to NewYork-Presbyterian, with equity and health justice as lodestars, clinical leaders say. "NewYork-Presbyterian is a leader in health care that combines clinical talent and technology to improve patients' lives," said Dr. Deepa Kumaraiah, senior vice president and chief medical officer at NewYork-Presbyterian. "With outstanding teams committed to health equity, we continue to improve outcomes, enhance access and reduce health disparities." THE LARGER TREND The health system – which comprises 10 hospitals and some 200 primary and specialty care clinics across the metro region – has been a leader in IT-enabled care, such as with its community-focused telehealth and advanced virtual care services. Over the years, Healthcare IT News has offered many case studies and features exploring the health system's leading edge technology, from an AI command center to on-demand digital health services, and from AI-enabled analytics to combat the opioid crisis to centralized teletracking for data automation. ON THE RECORD "NewYork-Presbyterian is transforming the way health care is delivered, leveraging technology to put patients' needs first and expand access to exceptional care," said Dr. Steven J. Corwin, president and chief executive officer of NewYork-Presbyterian. "Every day, we are advancing research and treatments that will change lives and shape the future of medicine." "NewYork-Presbyterian is at the forefront of health care's future," said Jerry Speyer, cochair of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Board of Trustees. "Our teams are using new technologies to advance how we prevent, diagnose, and treat disease. We bring that great care to all patients who come to us." Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

The electronic health record vendor group was founded two decades ago with a bold premise: competitors working collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality for EHRs and to further the initiatives laid out by HHS.

BRIDGE – Blueprint for Resilient Integration and Deployment of Guided Excellence – is meant to be an "evidence-based framework that health systems can rely on to not just adopt AI but to help scale it across their operations."