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From documenting bedside prayers to helping a hard-of-hearing nurse connect with patients, AI tools are revealing the importance of nurses' and patients' emotional and spiritual bonds to healing, says Mercy's Tracy Breece.

According to Tony DiGiorgio, chief architect at Symplr, the company has carefully embedded AI into its operational platform to cut administrative redundancy and enable nurses to minimize the number of systems they use each day.

Nissan Elimelech, founder of Augmedics, shares how the company's augmented reality surgical technology projects an anatomically accurate 3D spine onto the patient, helping surgeons operate with their eyes on the body instead of a screen.  

Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications, says centralizing health system data provides nurses with a "bigger picture" of operations so they can uncover trends that can improve care delivery.

Sara Meinke and Asad Tariq of Baptist Health discuss how a predictive analytics tool has helped reduce patient wait times and enabled nurses to have uninterrupted lunch breaks, increasing patient and staff satisfaction.

Cooper University Health Care's Dr. Michael Kirchhoff says the health system's hackathon brings together coders, clinicians and other professionals to create and pitch grassroots programs that address social determinants of health.

A global outage on Thursday disrupted a range of services, including several AI tools widely used in healthcare, such as Vertex AI, Dialogflow CX, Agent Assist and Contact Center AI.

Through working with global leaders, educating its members and developing digital transformation tools for health systems, Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says HIMSS encourages the ethical and practical integration of AI in healthcare.

Paul Grand, CEO of MedTech Innovator, discusses how the accelerator embraces high-risk, high-reward technologies and steers them to market with industry expertise.

New chief medical information officers should surround themselves with people who know more than they do and create a team that fills the gap in their knowledge and experience, says Epic Emeritus CMIO Dr. Robert W. Warren.