Women in Healthcare IT (791)

To collect all the money they're owed, hospitals should ensure they have proper coding and pricing for services and look for community funding, says Kelly Arduino, Healthcare Industry Leader at advisory firm Wipfli.

Artificial intelligence-driven cost estimation tools and telehealth are addressing patient care gaps and improving care access while lowering total costs for employee groups, says Robin Glass, president of Included Health.

AI is more readily adopted in other industries, and there are "thousands of reasons for that," says HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer Anne Snowdon. The biggest is that in healthcare lives are at stake. "We don't ever take that for granted."

Yesha Patel, data scientist at Keck Medicine of USC says some applications come out of the box "ready to go." Others require a more customized approach – but that requires a lot of in-house expertise, like data scientists and AI architects.

Fakeeh Care Group CIO Dr Tamara Sunbul shares how hospitals can unlock virtual wards' potential to improve bed turnover.

Sukrti Nagpal, deputy chief medical officer of virtual care provider Doccla, and Yosef Safi Harb, founder and CEO of health monitoring company Happitech, discuss their partnership to help monitor and detect heart rhythm problems in patients.

AI is a "shiny object" right now, but finding success depends on getting the scut work of data management right, says Dr. Deepti Pandita, CMIO & VP of Clinical Informatics at University of California Irvine Health.

Carolyn Magill, venture partner at Define Ventures, discusses the venture capital firm’s recent survey outlining how 15 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies are embracing AI and where the ever-changing technology is being implemented.

Veradigm is consolidating payer apps attached to EHRs by 15% to simplify providers' days and eliminate patient care gaps by up to 80%, based on larger provider groups, says Megan Zakrewsky, VP of product for clinical data exchange.

MaineHealth has had much success in the field of telemedicine. Its medical director of telehealth and virtual care Dr. Tracy Jalbuena and its VP of telehealth and virtual care Lizzy Mulcahy offer detailed advice on expansion and patient involvement.

WakeMed Health & Hospitals is deploying both generative AI and predictive modeling, says Elizabeth Murumalla, the health system's IS project manager. She describes how its collaboration with Epic is helping manage some challenges along the way.

Real-world encounter data shows individuals enrolled in a MA plan are more likely to have a chronic condition than those who sign up for original Medicare, says Inovalon's VP of research science and advanced analytics, Christie Teigland.