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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.

Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications, says centralizing health system data provides nurses with a "bigger picture" of operations so they can uncover trends that can improve care delivery.

Sara Meinke and Asad Tariq of Baptist Health discuss how a predictive analytics tool has helped reduce patient wait times and enabled nurses to have uninterrupted lunch breaks, increasing patient and staff satisfaction.

Cooper University Health Care's Dr. Michael Kirchhoff says the health system's hackathon brings together coders, clinicians and other professionals to create and pitch grassroots programs that address social determinants of health.

The University of Chicago's Julie Johnson shares an example of a recent collaboration on an AMIA presentation to illustrate how patient data can help identify health disparities and suggest how to resolve them.

Rahul Mahadevan, founder and CEO of The WiTT Group, discusses the company's platform, which empowers patients to reach out for their non-clinical needs and gives health systems visibility into patients' biggest challenges.

In the four years since virtual hospital Sheba Beyond's launch, its director general, Dr. Galia Barkai, says leadership has learned that success relies less on technology and more on securing reimbursement and managing change.

Independent accreditation is essential to ensure that health technology and health organizations are compliant with HIPAA, NIST and other standards, says Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

Getting every image, anywhere, to anyone who has the right to the image, including physicians and patients through the personal health record, is a key goal, says Dr. David Kaelber, Cleveland MetroHealth's chief medical informatics officer.