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There's variability in the sector depending on financial resources and post-acute settings were not funded under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, says Robert Latz, CIO, Trinity Rehabilitation Services.

The scribe needs specialty support to tackle the "edge" cases such as the complex care provided in the ER. It also needs to be coding-aware for the financial health of the hospital, says Dr. William Morris, Ambience Healthcare CMO.

Threat actors could be looking at women's health data as valuable due to its sensitivity in certain states, says Deepak Prakash, CTO and cofounder of Sonio, a cloud-based OB-GYN reporting software.

Inova Health System recently attained the Joint Commission's Responsible Use of Health Data certification after taking part in a pilot for ensuring structure, governance, reliability and accountability around managing data for non-patient encounter events, says Matt Kull, Inova's chief information and digital strategy officer.

Health systems need to know the ROI before they purchase technology, as CIOs and CFOs are looking at costs at a new level, says David Kirshner, managing partner at LogicSource and former CFO of Boston Children's Hospital.

The coming year is going to show where AI's practical use cases are going to be in healthcare, say editors from HIMSS Media brands Healthcare Finance News, Healthcare IT News and MobiHealthNews.

The editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews look at the big trends in AI, cybersecurity and reimbursement and the uncertainty of what to expect from a new administration.

These positions are central to improving care efficiency in the clinical and operational uses of AI at health systems, says Zachary Durst, a consultant in the IT practice of WittKieffer.