AI

AI is a tool to help people everywhere realize their health potential, said HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer Anne Snowden. If there was a time for learning, sharing and building a community of AI decision-making tools, it is now.  

As host of HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, Robert Havasy, senior director of the Personal Connected Health Alliance at HIMSS, discusses the cautious optimism and warnings he heard from speakers and attendees about AI technology and its progress.  

The American Medical Association uses “augmented intelligence,” not “artificial intelligence,” as the tech is meant to support, not replace, people, said Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, president of the AMA. Still, new regulatory paradigms are needed.

Updesh Dosanjh, practice leader of technology solutions for lQVIA, discusses ensuring fairness while using AI in clinical trials, the value of digital twins and the necessity of building and consistently adapting frameworks around AI use.  

Peter Shen, head of the digital and automation business at Siemens Healthineers, discusses the value of adopting a Hippocratic Oath and ethical standards for AI use in healthcare to ensure the safe creation and training of algorithms.

Davidi Vortman, CEO of UltraSight, discusses the company's AI-driven cardiac-imaging technology that helps providers quickly and efficiently triage patients and the ways the FDA-cleared system is used in the U.S. and globally.  

Dr. Michael Howell, Google's chief clinical officer, discusses what federal regulators should consider while configuring rules around AI use in healthcare and how the company ensures health equity within its medically tuned LLM, Med-PaLM.  

Embark on the AI journey with a bold mindset, says Sunil Dadlani, Atlantic Health System's chief information and digital officer (and CISO). Still, review the technology and address the risks upfront to ensure proper guardrails for safety.  

Jeremy Petch, director of digital health innovation at Hamilton Health Sciences, highlights how he and fellow panelists will explore potential solutions to problems posed by AI in healthcare at the HIMSS upcoming AI conference.  

EHR giant Epic’s executive vice president of research and development, Sumit Rana, discusses generative AI use in healthcare, the benefits and pitfalls of the tool, and how providers use the company's technology for clinical workflow.