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This can include mentorship and support for local communities, work to improve health equity at the state level and much more, says Marjorie Rosen, vice chair of the HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Task Force.
A virtual nursing success story emerges from a large New York health system, and examples of the kinds of care coordination services that virtual nurses can handle during message triage, from Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare.
According to Svava María Atladóttir, chief transformation officer at Iceland's Landspítali National University Hospital, clinical and IT staff are actively collaborating to improve its in-house EHR and clinical portal.
UC Davis Health chief AI advisor Dennis Chornenky points to knowledge of policy, business strategy, technology and healthcare – as technologies are evolving much more quickly than governance can catch up.
Healthcare chief AI officers have to have rare combination of skills, just as complex as the artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies they oversee.
Christine Antorini, former minister of education for Denmark, believes that creating opportunities for older professionals to choose nursing careers can mitigate staffing challenges and diversify the nursing population.
Dr. Shreya Shah, medical informatics director at Stanford Health Care, says higher-value, lower-risk use cases like automated draft replies to patient messages and ambient AI scribes are improving the care experience for providers.
HIMSS' new Policy Principles for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning focus on safety and trust; transparency and privacy; and workforce and sustainability. Jonathan French, senior director of public policy at HIMSS explains more.
Health CIOs at HIMSS24 APAC sought best practices to improve leadership, alongside strengthening regional ties, HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf shares.
Dr. Gerald Lip of the U.K.'s NHS Grampian says that using AI algorithms has allowed a shrinking pool of radiologists to work more efficiently and provide test results in three days, instead of two weeks.
