Digital Checkup (551)

CIO Craig Kwiatkowski offers a look at the AI tools at the famous health system, how its AI-powered primary care app is training AI on data sets that reflect diverse populations, and how he measures the success of AI-enabled initiative.

Craig Kwiatkowski also discusses whether to build or buy AI, and how patients and clinicians are responding to these tools.

MA plans will need to measure performance ahead of 2027 when CMS will start rewarding plans that demonstrate progress in addressing health disparities, says Anna Basevich, SVP of Enterprise Partnerships and Customer Enablement at Arcadia.

The model allows for a gradual approach to risk for more conservative and less experienced ACOs, in comparison to ACO REACH, which requires a greater tolerance for risk but has more rewards, says David Morris, EVP at Cedar Gate Technologies.

Combining clinical data and mathematical models can increase precision and expedite treatment plans. Thierry Marchal of Ansys and researcher María Angeles Pérez discuss its use in pediatric abdominal cancer and across specialties.

Scott Doolittle, Quantum Health CFO, discusses how his company allows visibility into the entire care journey for all stakeholders.

First-step recommendations are: Do the basics, as in following HIPAA security-rule compliance and doing a security-risk analysis, says Carolyn Metnick, partner at Sheppard Mullin and member of their Healthcare and privacy and cybersecurity team.

Kellee Stewart, actress, writer, producer and fertility advocate, discusses her fertility journey and subsequent association with evite and family building and fertility company Progeny to expand cognizance around fertility health.

Grant Veazy, CTO at Ensemble Health Partners, says reasons hospitals outsource their revenue cycle management include the aim to reduce cost to collect and increase yield.

Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis International, discusses the company's partnership with surgical training company FundamentalVR to train students in ophthalmic surgery to treat cataracts using VR.

Both small and large organizations have risk challenges and threat monitoring gaps. "It's not just the technology, but its also the people and the process part of it, and that part is really hard for healthcare," says Steve Cagle, CEO of Clearwater.

Dr. Mark Mims, facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon at OU Health, discusses the training program for Ukrainian surgeons to learn extensive head and neck reconstructive surgery to help individuals in the European country.