HIMSS TV

When launching a healthcare AI project, Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, recommends consulting with technology users to understand the problems they encounter and are trying to solve.

Independent accreditation is essential to ensure that health technology and health organizations are compliant with HIPAA, NIST and other standards, says Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

Getting every image, anywhere, to anyone who has the right to the image, including physicians and patients through the personal health record, is a key goal, says Dr. David Kaelber, Cleveland MetroHealth's chief medical informatics officer.

Criteria for a good education session includes content that aligns with global topics, there is no commercialization and that presenters come from provider organizations, says Paul Contino, CIO of University Hospital Newark, New Jersey.

Morgan Cheatham, partner and head of healthcare and life sciences at Breyer Capital, provides highlights of the venture capital firm's strategy when funding emerging technologies and the risks associated with backing these innovations.

While HIEs and TEFCA represent important interoperability advances, William Cavanaugh, Concord Technologies CEO, says health systems also need to access documents that contain important context for clinicians, rather than just data.

Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki, says AI is a fundamental technology that changes hospitals', physicians' and patients' healthcare experience, impacting every aspect, including care delivery, patient summarization and the revenue cycle.

Jackie Rice, VP and chief information officer at Frederick Health, says adding pharmacogenetic data to the health system's EHR enables alerts that advise clinicians on how a patient’s genes can affect drug response.

Jayme Strauss, Precision Neuroscience's chief clinical and commercial officer, kicks off the Emerging Technologies series, discussing how the company's brain-computer interface, Layer 7, works and what it hopes to accomplish for patients.

Tom Liddell, Harmony Healthcare IT CEO, says the company's AI-powered clinical registry automation tool is already delivering results for clients and will be featured in an upcoming HIMSS book on AI innovation.