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Other tips Alda Mizaku, chief data and AI officer at Children's National Hospital, offers peers looking to be Chief AI Officers include finding a way to stay current with AI technology and focusing on responsible use and ethics.

Alda Mizaku, chief data and AI officer at Children's National Hospital, also says they need to have strong leadership capabilities and effective communication skills, being able to talk with a diverse set of stakeholders.

While artificial intelligence-driven scribes need to evolve for edge cases, the future of healthcare AI is additive and we're in a transformational moment, says Dr. William Morris, Ambience Healthcare CMO.

AI, cybersecurity, telehealth, reimbursement, plus a change in the administration promise an interesting year ahead. Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews editors discuss.

The past two years has seen a significant increase in the number of AI officers as health systems look for opportunities to advance AI and need a leader focused on the space, says Zachary Durst, IT practice consultant at WittKieffer.

Clinicians spend about 28 hours a week on administrative tasks, taking away from patient time, says Aashima Gupta, Google Cloud's healthcare vertical lead.

Dan Torrens, eHealth Technologies CEO, discusses where providers are in shepherding patient data exchange across the finish line and speeding up time to care. "People are stuck in the current way of doing things. The infrastructure is there."

Taichung Veterans General Hospital has developed various predictive AI models for the ICU by harnessing data of over 70 million patients, says Lai-Shiun Lai, Computer and Communications Center director.

Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, which serves about a third of Taiwan's population, is leveraging AI and automation technologies in its centralised hospital system, says Dr Chien-Tzung Chen, superintendent.

UC San Diego Health is getting more than that using generative AI under the guidance of its new Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh. The physician details this and other AI projects and offers tips to execs looking to be a Chief AI Officer.

They must answer for all things artificial intelligence in a health system – and have clinical and AI knowledge, which does not need to be evenly balanced, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.

From images of patients' digitized pathology, AI gets a view of cells of the tumor for recommended therapy and long- term prognoses, says Andre Esteva CEO of Artera.