Less than two months since the Biden Administration published its sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence, the White House on Thursday announced new commitments to AI transparency, risk management and responsibility from more than two dozen leading healthcare organizations. WHY IT MATTERS The White House EO, which was published on October 30, and has a

In the last decade, physician practices, hospitals and health systems have hired IT vendors to manage their equipment, update business and clinical software, and support their clinicians and staff with tech problems. Those services typically were all that was expected and needed, so IT was considered just another vendor on the organization’s balance sheet. Much

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its data strategy to improve human health outcomes. The goal is to make data available, accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable and protected so that it can be used effectively by HHS, its partners and the public to improve public health, according to Thursday’s announcement. WHY IT

Hospitals around Southeast Asia are upping the ante in their digital transformation as executives look to raise their technology spending in the coming years. FINDINGS Global management consultant L.E.K. Consulting recently conducted a survey involving 230 hospital directors from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore to gain an understanding of their strategic priorities and

SAN DIEGO – As the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum kicked off on Thursday morning, Rob Havasy, senior director of informatics strategy at HIMSS, offered some introductory remarks that looked back on a busy decade-plus of health IT innovation. “I’ve seen a lot of technologies come and go,” said Havasy. But with artificial intelligence, especially

Healthcare IT News sat down with Paul Brient, chief product officer of athenahealth, to gain his insights into how artificial intelligence can improve patient experiences and healthcare delivery, simplify healthcare interactions, and make healthcare more accessible, as well as hear how the electronic health record vendor is using AI today. He said that new AI-driven features in

In 2024, healthcare and health IT will feel the continued erosion of traditional care paradigms, be impacted by a retail shift from exuberant expansion to the long game of execution, and will finally, at long last, witness the death of the fax machine. This is the outlook for next year offered by Laura Kreofsky, digital

The healthcare industry is moving toward a distributed landscape and the roles of CIOs and other health IT leaders are evolving with this change. That is the view of William Lewkowski, vice president of HCTec, a healthcare consulting firm. In this week’s HIMSSCast podcast, we dive deep with Lewkowski about preparing for the future, and

Penn Highlands Healthcare is a rural health system with many very sick patients who don’t have a lot of resources. And the resources of the health system, in terms of clinicians, are very limited. As a result, burnout is extremely high. THE PROBLEM Penn Highlands was looking for a way to decrease clinician burnout and

Whether they are on Standford’s inbound and outbound calls, automated voice systems or mobile channels, patients can be heard through the health system’s engagement tools and processes. Dr. Adrienne Boissy, chief medical officer of Qualtrics and a practicing neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic, explained why emotional harm that can be caused by healthcare interactions needs to be heard.