AI

Dugan Winkie, head of commercial strategy at Cedar, discusses the revenue cycle management-focused company and how it works with strategic partners to ensure payments are satisfied using conversational AI and empathetic communication.

Malınka Walaliyadde, CEO and cofounder of AKASA, discusses the advancement and current views on artificial intelligence and tuning generative AI for use to improve the coding process in healthcare and revenue cycle management to support ROI.

Medical illustrator David Bolinsky, E.mersion Studios CEO and creative director, creates animations representing molecular and cellular biology, and says AI image generators’ hallucinations may affect scientific medical illustration.

Renato Umeton, director of AI operations and data science at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses building a secure environment to test and deploy LLMs to ensure responsible use, continuous innovation and limited access to outside AI tools.  

Dr. Zafar Chaudry, Seattle Children's chief digital officer and chief AI and information officer, discusses the importance of effective change management during AI implementation - and using AI as a tool rather than a stand-alone solution.  

Troy Foster, Stanford Health Care's director of digital health, discusses expanding use cases for AI among the health system's clinicians and nurses to reduce workload - and how vendors can help lower patient risk.

Shreya Shah, medical informatics director at Stanford Health Care, discusses the health system's use of genAI for patient message replies and ambient AI scribes to reduce the clinical documentation burden.

Josh Wymer, chief health information and data strategy officer at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, explains how the state ensures trust in the public-facing chatbot it offers its citizens.

Jonathan French, senior director of public policy at HIMSS, says the organization hopes its members participate in the public policy development process and understand the real-world ramifications of that policy.

Albert Marinez, chief analytics officer at Cleveland Clinic, discusses how genAI is an order of magnitude higher than traditional strategies and how a lot of problems can be solved with traditional machine learning and predictive analytics.