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Penn Medicine's Anna Schoenbaum says the HIMSS Nursing Innovation Advisory Workgroup, which she co-chairs, has developed AI toolkits and customizable teaching slides to help leaders understand AI's complexity, costs and impact.

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.

While they were originally tools for administrative documentation, EHRs now prioritize streamlining clinicians' workflows and enhancing care delivery, says Sandra Johnson, SVP of client services at CliniComp.

While AI can fix clinical documentation efficiency, traditional interventions such as improving culture can be another solution to physician burnout, says Dr. Anwar Jebran, medical director of population health informatics at Oak Street Health.

The generative AI healthcare agent aims to support clinicians by taking on time-consuming, non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks.  

Until we can simplify the digital ecosystem the cognitive burden on teams will continue to be a source of burnout, frustration and potential source of error, says Lisa Stump, Mount Sinai Health System Chief Digital Information Officer.