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Diana van Stijn, cofounder and chief medical officer at Lapsi Health, says that, while clinicians are natural innovators, they should be taught the business side of healthcare in medical school so they can understand healthcare IT market needs.
Efforts are being made to find ways to notify clinicians about possible medication errors without overloading them. First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz explain.
Temporary Medicare items will be in trial soon to allow patients to get admitted and seek psychiatric virtual consultations in private hospitals.
Craig Kwiatkowski is calibrating the pace of the health system's artificial intelligence adoption to ensure it's deploying generative AI safely and responsibly.
Its new survey of inpatient purchasing finds Epic as the only vendor to increase its net market share in 2023 – gaining 153 new hospital clients and now covering more than half of acute care multispecialty beds nationwide.
Sarah Hatchett, who had been serving as interim chief information officer since August 2023, will take on the role full time.
Dr Georgi Chaltikyan of Germany's Deggendorf Institute of Technology says he believes teaching healthcare staff how to use AI technologies that automate workflows would help reduce burnout and lead to better patient outcomes.
MITConn Consulting's principal health IT strategist, Dr. Reza Ryan Sadeghian, discusses the GPT apps his team created to help medical students access references and virtual tutoring and to streamline clinical documentation.
Bart de Witte, founder of Hippo AI Foundation, discusses challenges of developing open-source healthcare AI models, including the need to build them on quality management systems and the difficulty of accessing clinical data for training.
Success Stories & ROI
The system provides the data insights that enable the organization to close underutilized clinics and redirect patients to others nearby. Additionally, the finance teams have whittled down rent reporting from two months to a week.