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Ambient AI relieves clinicians' cognitive burden by capturing visits and drafting patient notes so they can be fully present in the encounter and patients feel seen and heard, says Matt Troup, clinical strategy principal at Abridge.
MaryAnn Connor, NYU adjunct informatics professor, and Olga Kagan, FANA CEO, recommend that healthcare organizations hold recurring cyberattack and outage drills to prevent care disruption when digital tools are not available.
Daniel Spitzer, Cyderes' SVP and general manager, healthcare, says understanding attack vectors and having a partner to scale cybersecurity efforts can help rural health systems safeguard their networks.
AI is one of HIMSS' core focus areas, and HIMSS' Lisa Counsell says that local meetings and the upcoming AI in Healthcare Forum can help organizations better understand AI's uses and policy considerations.
Brittany Cyriacks, UCHealth clinical informatics program director, talks about how veteran virtual ICU nurses act as "angels in the sky," stepping in to help less experienced nurses spot sepsis and patient deterioration.
Joseph Brown, Davenport University chair for allied health and HIM, advises tailoring assignments to students' abilities and strengths rather than using traditional exams in multigenerational learning environments.
Sophia Brown, RN, Strategic Informatics Solutions' founder and CEO, recommends that health systems allow clinicians to test new AI tools before implementation to ensure they work well and are useful.
In the HIMSS Executive Connect program, UVA Health CTO Zeb Elliott learned to engage his teams more effectively to boost their output and get better results without overextending them.
According to HIMSS' Tom Leary and Luis Belen, CEO of NHIT, NHIT INSPIRED connects college students with HIMSS mentors and industry partners. The program has shown early success in helping students find industry jobs.
According to Tom Leary, HIMSS Foundation executive director, the foundation assists with costs associated with earning digital healthcare certifications to remove barriers for students from underserved communities.