Artificial Intelligence

Executives' highest priority for revenue cycle investment is technology, such as AI, automation and machine learning.

AI has emerged as a critical area of investment, with 57% of executives planning to invest this year.

Providence is starting to see scale on AI in clinical use cases and in implementation evaluation, says Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence.  

Atlantic Health System, which had an AI maybe approach, is transitioning to an AI first approach, says Sunil Dadlani, chief information & digital officer at Atlantic Health System.

Cohere's AI platform has a high auto approval rate, but if another type of care is required before surgery, the tech provides that faster, says Dr. Traci Granston at Cohere.

To get to the end state, health systems need to have data that is secure, accessible and interoperable, says HIMSS president and CEO Hal Wolf.  

Harper Family Foundation provided $10M to train staff and medical professionals to deploy AI technology ethically for patients, system says.

CISOs must have the skill of curiosity to search for answers when detecting that something is amiss when AI innovations are onboarded, says David Heaney, CISO at Mass General Brigham.

The risk is a cyberattacker using AI to process a volume of data and finding a corner of the environment we didn't know about, says Dave Heaney, CISO at Mass General Brigham.  

Robert Booker, HITRUST's chief strategy officer, talks about the need to deploy artificial intelligence responsibly in healthcare as a part of risk management, and how his company's AI Risk Management Assessment helps companies grapple with rapidly evolving technology.