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Key factors are if AI is shown to reduce nursing burnout and educating staff on what the tech can and can't do, says Stephen Ferrara, associate dean of AI at Columbia University and past president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
IT helps nurses reduce their documentation burden and it's up to them to make sure the tech is running as effectively as possible, says Eric Gasser, RN, VP of IS and CIO at Wooster Community Hospital Health System.
Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, can be asymptomatic, so patients are sent home with virtual cardiac monitors, says Sukrti Nagpal, deputy CMO of virtual care provider Doccla, and Yosef Safi Harb, founder and CEO of health monitoring company Happitech.
If leaders are not looking at the whole enterprise, AI projects will fail to be successful, says Dr. Deepti Pandita, CMIO & VP of Clinical Informatics at University of California Irvine Health.
Execs are ready for enterprise scale adoption to embed AI into workflows and demonstrate true ROI, says Carolyn Magill, venture partner at Define Ventures.
Know what journey to pursue, set the ambition, establish ethics and governance, conduct opportunity identification and be clear on objectives and enablements, to harness AI's value, says Children's Hospital of Philadelphia CDAO Dr. Hojjat Salmasian.
Nurses know that if AI is used in the right way to understand patterns, it has positive benefits, says Kenrick Cato, nurse scientist, pediatric data and analytics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Automated data exchange in the EHR gets patient information in front of clinicians at the point of care to support decision-making, says Megan Zakrewsky, VP of product for clinical data exchange for Veradigm.
The biggest challenge is lacking an in-house data and analytics team to build predictive models, so WakeMed Health & Hospitals depends on Epic to make this happen, says Elizabeth Murumalla, the health system's IS project manager.
Under the Transforming Episode Accountability Model, starting January 1, 2026, 750 hospitals and other healthcare institutions must provide a retrospective bundled program for episode-based care, says Dave Snow, CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies.