Quality and Safety
The 24-state health system's integrated care model has achieved a 43% reduction in first-year RN voluntary turnover, a 21% decrease in emergency department hold hours and many other wins. Its virtual nursing transformation chief offers details.
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, a HIMSS Davies Award winner, is testing artificial intelligence tools that modernize referral management and triage, boosting patients' access to care, according to two health system execs.
During HIMSS26, attendees used astronaut medical emergency simulations to explore decision-making, resource allocation and value-based care strategies under extreme constraints.
Identity is part of foundational infrastructure and should be strengthened so digital transformation initiatives can truly deliver, says MDM tech exec Rachel Blum at HIMSS26.
Translation systems are "trained to understand medication dosages, medical codes and other clinical terminology so the AI model works as it should," an Oracle engineer explained at HIMSS26.
Air-gapped IREs, where critical systems and data can be restored if primary infrastructure is compromised, offer EHR access in a secure cloud environment, leaders from Sentara and AWS showed at HIMSS26 on Wednesday.
AI-augmented clinicians could soon be the expected norm, said the Mayo Clinic health IT pioneer. But there will always be plenty of other challenges to solve. "And that doesn't mean we're going to need fewer radiation oncologists."
Care delivery might become more personalized, "tailored and swift" during a Taylor Swift administration, says General Catalyst's Stephen Klasko, keynote speaker at the HIMSS26 Smart Health Transformation Forum.
At the HIMSS26 AI in Healthcare Forum, MGB's chief information and digital officer described strategies for governance, safety and sustainability as it strives to integrate artificial intelligence across all corners of the health system.
Healthcare now is entering a more mature phase of AI where psychological and practical human challenges are no longer theoretical but the new operational reality with which IT professionals must contend, Altera Digital Health AI exec says at HIMSS26.