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A premarket piece for developer adherence gives providers peace of mind about the safety of the products they're using and a post market component calls for a feedback loop for end users and developers, says Jonathan French, senior director of public policy at HIMSS.  

The health system has partnered with Palantir for an AI-driven Virtual Command Center that includes Hospital 360, a real-time display of patient census and capacity, says Albert Marinez, chief analytics officer at Cleveland Clinic.

AI offers consumers easier access to diagnoses, treatment plans and cost estimates, with 87% being fine with the tech for clerical work; 50% being comfortable with its use in assisting physicians; but only 14% wanting AI to do a diagnosis on its own, says Mark Polyak, president of analytics at Ipsos.  

The Dayton VA Medical Center, working with MIT and Harvard, has developed an integrated algorithm called Sybil for the detection of lung nodules and cancer risk, says Zachary Arose, chief of healthcare technology management at the Dayton VA Medical Center.

The American Heart Association is well known for its clinical research and guidelines, but what makes a difference for patients is implementation, says John Meiners, chief of mission-aligned businesses and healthcare solutions for the organization.

ChatGPT and other large language models enable a new level of patient empowerment in their care, such as navigating questions about their diagnosis, insurance benefits and cost, says Dr. Chethan Sarabu, AI & informatics strategist at OpenNotes.

CIOs and other IT leaders this year are expected to explore practical applications for AI, such as use in administrative functions, for which AI is ideally suited, says Greg Miller, vice president of business development at Carta Healthcare.  

Christopher Ahn, biomedical engineer supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs in Dayton, Ohio, developed a chatbot called the Healthcare Technology Large language Model that allows clinicians to query the chatbot rather than carrying around service manuals or scrolling through a pdf, Ahn says.

CHAI has formed five working groups for best practices to build out an assurance standards guide. Later this fall it will announce a model card to align health systems, payers and IT companies, says Dr. Brian Anderson, cofounder and CEO.

The question becomes not whether AI can predict disease, but what physicians should tell patients, ethically, such as their chances of getting cancer, says Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a physician at Colorado-based Peak Gastroenterology Associates.