Artificial Intelligence

Hospitals must balance financial pressure with clinician wellbeing as cost-first strategies are linked to burnout.

David Lareau, Medicomp Systems CEO, explains that deterministic, rules-based AI models can validate the probabilistic, often inconsistent outputs that LLMs deliver to avoid errors in clinical documentation.

Cost control, Carelon integration and scaling AI are reasons for the company's confidence.

As global healthcare leaders develop new ways of using AI, HIMSS helps assess which techniques are working and translates them into best practices so that smaller organizations can learn from them, explains HIMSS' Robert Havasy.

Finance leaders say they are prioritizing technology investments for operational improvements.

Artisight Chief Nursing Officer Karie Ryan discusses her company's AI ambient intelligence offerings that combine audio and video, sensors and computer vision to create a smart hospital room that aims to improve patient safety and workflow efficiency.

HIMSS' Lisa Counsell says HIMSS Georgia is one of the most active local chapters because area hospitals see themselves as collaborators rather than competitors and members enjoy participating on committees.

A collaboration with DeepHealth broadens Breast Suite capabilities to GE HealthCare's mammography customers.

UCHealth developed an AI sepsis-detection model but struggles to educate thousands of nurses across 15 hospitals to use and trust its outputs, says Brittany Cyriacks, clinical informatics program director.

Jonathan French, HIMSS' senior director of public policy, explains how the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem and ONC's HTI-5 Proposed Rule may reshape interoperability policy and regulation for digital health tools.