clinical decision support
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.
HIMSS Changemaker Awardee Farhana Alarakhiya discusses Afya Gemma, an AI-powered tool that provides best practice protocols with local context in English or Swahili for Kenyan doctors practicing in remote clinics.
Shlomi Madar, CEO of SpotitEarly, discusses the company's noninvasive test using a breath sample, which is analyzed by specially trained dogs capable of identifying unique cancer-related scent signatures combined with AI technology.
Atropos Health CEO, Brigham Hyde, discusses the integration of Atropos' agentic AI agent into Microsoft Teams, helping clinical teams analyze patient information and clinical documentation during team meetings to support decision making.
According to Kevin Ritter of Altera Digital Health, health systems must go beyond simple information exchange to ensure their data is discrete, normalized and able to flow between multiple applications across the enterprise.
Karthik Raja, Ascension's chief analytics and AI officer, says that AI success demands dual goals: pursue inspiring moonshots, but start with "quick wins" that solve daily pain points and drive efficiencies.
Julie Frey, VP of product at Wolters Kluwer Health, discusses how the company's clinical decision support tool, which combines trusted evidence with generative AI, fits into clinical workflows and augments physicians' judgment.
The company received an additional equity investment from OrbiMed.
Dr. Ethan Goh of the Stanford ARISE Network says researchers are testing AI's ability to mirror a doctor's diagnostic thought process, which could lay the groundwork for deploying safe, trusted AI in clinical care.
Megan Zakrewsky, VP of product for clinical data exchange at Veradigm, discusses how automating payer data exchange and reducing desktop crowding for providers supports decision-making and reduce burnout.