Artificial Intelligence

Patients are using artificial intelligence on their own outside of the healthcare ecosystem, which threatens to erode hospital revenue, says Ed Marx, longtime healthcare CIO.

Ran Balicer of Clalit Health Services says healthcare leaders can use the organization's OPTICA framework to help evaluate and integrate AI-based tools in clinical settings to ensure they are safe and responsible.

The company now has relationships with Medicare, Medicaid and major commercial plans.

Clinical research and trials will verify SpotitEarly’s early cancer detection, which uses trained canines and AI to identify odor signatures in breath samples.

Executives at the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit discuss what made them choose to participate and how they've benefited from networking opportunities and sessions on real-world AI adoption.

According to HIMSS digital strategist Jill Seys, involving leaders in AI tools' design and testing empowers them to encourage their teams to adopt the technology to increase efficiency.

“We're building a plane and flying it at the same time," said Christopher Kunney on what's happening with AI.

AI can find the root cause of a disease and offer ways to cure it and it can also bring a significant lift to healthcare operations through a data layer, says Rosha Pokharel, CEO and founder of SolvDat.

As an analytics leader, one of the biggest challenges is training people on the literacy that they need to support AI and not just accepting the answers being given, says Kerri Webster, RN, VP and chief analytics officer at Children's Hospital Colorado.

C-suite, clinical and IT leaders attend the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit in Chicago to learn more about future-focused digital transformation.