clinical AI

As AI technology continues to evolve, Abhinav Shashank, Innovaccer CEO, says IT leaders must stay focused on ensuring that all AI tools are ethically trained, tested and deployed and that their desired outcomes are clearly defined.

While clinicians are seeing positive results from AI tools such as ambient listening, Anurag Mehta, Omega Healthcare CEO, believes healthcare won't realize AI's full potential until data-security fears are overcome.

While AI can fix clinical documentation efficiency, traditional interventions such as improving culture can be another solution to physician burnout, says Dr. Anwar Jebran, medical director of population health informatics at Oak Street Health.

While AI technology shows promise for automating administrative tasks, Julie Frey, vice president of provider product at Wolters Kluwer, recommends caution in deploying AI, particularly generative AI, for clinical use cases.

Video data is being used for quality assurance and improvement while AI provides insights and information which helps physicians learn more about surgery, say Transform Health Partners' Dr. Peter Billing and Medtronic's George Murgatroyd.

Using 400 logic "languages," Dr. R. Ryan Sadeghian, pediatrician and University of Toledo CMIO, and his team are building pediatric-specific AI apps that deliver safe, context-aware responses to support pediatric diagnoses.

Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services, believes AI implementation is necessary to advance healthcare and recommends that organizations create guardrails to ensure safe, ethical AI deployment.

Dr. Tamara Sunbul, chair of HIMSS Middle East Community and a digital health transformation and innovation strategic advisor, discusses HIMSS Executive Sumit in Dubai, creating the agenda and what leaders can learn from the Middle East region.

Peter Shen, North America head of digital and automation at Siemens Healthineers, believes many clinicians don't use AI algorithms either because they don't understand how they work or because very few AI tools receive reimbursement.

Bob Dichter, founder and career coach at Phoenix Rising Career Services, recommends that newcomers to the industry determine how their knowledge and experience can apply to healthcare IT and articulate their value clearly.