Digital Checkup (539)

Ruby Gadelrab, MDisrupt CEO and founder, and Lisa Suennen, managing partner at American Heart Association Ventures, discuss their collaboration to co-develop a platform to connect experts and innovators focused on brain and heart health.

Edward Marx, CEO of Marx Advisory, discusses how to combat government policy and regulation slowing AI adoption. He also details the contributions needed from the boardroom with AI projects.

Pediatric ear, nose and throat specialist Dr. Daniela Carvalho at Rady Children's Health in San Diego discusses California's first pediatric Nucleus Nexa cochlear implant and the significance of this milestone for advancing hearing care.

Payer-provider collaboration in data exchange is being mandated and payers must speed up the prior authorization process, says Courtney Yeakel, chief product officer of the Payer Unit at Veradigm.

Historical context to health IT for newer health IT professionals and takeaways that can foster stronger multidisciplinary IT-oriented teams from Dr. Jonathan M. Sternlieb, an Epic Emeritus CMIO and longtime informaticist.

Dr. Amit Gir, Phox Health CEO and cofounder, discusses collaborations with UW Medicine, Alaska Airlines and The MetroHealth System to improve patient access to specialty medication via delivery, and its anticipated move into drone deliveries.

Karthik Raja, chief analytics and AI officer at Ascension, offers expert advice with his answer, and explains the bonds between analytics and AI that make each technology better.

Surprisingly, researchers found no correlation between department closures and negative outcomes for patients driving greater distances, says Martin Gaynor, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University.

The recently released UpToDate Expert AI brings generative AI to clinicians at the point of care to provide treatment and diagnostic guidance, says Julie Frey, VP of product at Wolters Kluwer Health.

Dr. Michael Zaroukian, also a past chair of the HIMSS board of directors, says though go-live has a finish line, the journey to excellence does not: Resist the urge to conclude that the way the health system uses the EHR is "good enough."

Nurses can have a conversation with the patient at the bedside and the documentation is done, which improves both the clinical and patient experience, says Dr. Steve Buslovich, CMO of Senior Care at PointClickCare.

Health tech companies can anticipate the logic of generative artificial intelligence using knowledge graphs, like the FDA's Elsa, when submitting product reviews, and improve the accuracy of their outputs, says Jeff Elton of ConcertAI.