Artificial Intelligence

The biggest danger is validating the data so that it's not a question of "garbage in, garbage out," says Dr. Stephen Dolter, CMIO for Omaha's Children's Hospital & Medical Center.  

Biometric wearables predicted 73% of COVID-19 cases more than two days before service members felt sick, says Jeffrey Schneider at DoD and Navin Natoewal at Philips.

HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf and Clalit Chief Innovation Officer Ran Balicer discuss AI's promise and the challenge of starting with clean information for predictive modeling applications.

The best way it can help is by not making the problem worse, says Andrew Eye, cofounder and CEO of ClosedLoop.ai.

Connecticut Office of Health Strategy is a think tank around health policy in the state, says Sumit Sajnani, health information technology officer at the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy.  

In his 50 years of attending HIMSS events, Dan Soule, VP of technology operations at Health Catalyst, has seen an evolution in the EHR, clinical advances, AI innovation and attention to health equity.

Clinical documentation improvement, or CDI, eases burden for fewer clicks, greater efficiencies, more time with patients at bedside and family at home, says Tami McMasters Gomez, director of Coding and Clinical Documentation Integrity Services at UC Davis Medical Center.  

Telehealth providers have until August 12 to come into OCR compliance, with the end of PHE provisions, says HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Rainer.  

AI built into the EHR can be used for clinical decision support to give a better understanding to patient treatment, says R. Ryan Sadeghian, CMIO of Hunterdon Healthcare System.

The Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Validation final rule has ramped up compliance pressure against overcoding, says Dr. Calum Yacoubian, director of healthcare strategy at IQVIA.