Operations
Josh Di Frances, vice president and head of incubation at LG NOVA, highlights the winners of the company’s 2024 Startup Pitch Competition held annually at LG NOVA’s annual InnoFest, which included mDETECT, Glidance and Oncoustics.
Cindy Henry, director of population health informatics at ZeOmega, explores the recent trends in Star Ratings, the contributing factors behind lower scores across the board and strategies to adapt as the program's standards continue to rise.
Rami Karjian, head of the operating rooms business at LeanTaaS, says 17% of healthcare providers had to delay or cancel surgeries, which has a huge impact on patients, on the finances of a hospital and on caregivers who have to make up for the backlog.
It's not how many people you need to be on staff, the question is how effectively you utilize your staff with the various functions that you need, and what you outsource, says Lee Kim, senior principal for cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.
When considering a merger or acquisition, potential buyers should ask for the seller’s security policies and procedures, a risk analysis, and whether they have had recent security incidents, says Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine.
People in the workforce are increasingly looking for work-life harmony. Flex work is very much in demand, says Robert Crowe, EVP of per diem and local workforce strategies at Medical Solutions and founder of Matchwell.
Andre Esteva, CEO and cofounder of Artera, a spin-out of Salesforce, relays how the company's AI tool looks at images of cancer tumors and recommends specific therapies to clinicians.
Eric Smith, chief digital officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, discusses the health systems' AI governance council and the use of AI in its day-to-day operations - including patient interactions and ambient listening.
Pivoting from a healthcare administrator leader into chief health AI officer requires a substantial amount of health AI knowledge or a willingness to get that knowledge, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.
The chief AI officer should understand basic principles about AI, have a computing background and know the ultimate clinical use case, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.