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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.
HIMSS' public policy principles suggest AI guardrails to keep AI safe and trustworthy and recommend that they apply across the U.S. to prevent complications for developers, says HIMSS' Jonathan French.
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.
Dr. Matt Sakumoto, Nabla's chief clinical product officer, says he wants the next wave of AI tools to empower every member of a clinical team to collect patients' stories and follow them along their care journey.
Despite progress in using advanced analytics, Jill Seys, senior director for North America analytics at HIMSS, says that many healthcare organizations are still challenged with tailoring communications for patients.
AI can streamline workflows across health systems, but Greg O'Neill, ChristianaCare's director of patient education, says the technology misses its purpose if the information it provides to patients and families isn't 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.
Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, stresses that education and guidance can help ensure that tribal clinic staff understand and use digital health resources and EHRs effectively.