Healthcare IT insiders and thought leaders discuss issues affecting the industry, including AI policies, patient experience, the next generation of CIOs, nursing informatics and more.

Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, associate professor of biomedical informatics and pediatric endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, talks about how ambient AI tools can reduce clinicians' burden by recording patient visits and producing notes.

Leaders from Cleveland Clinic London and other European pharmacy experts explain a new effort to help EU providers streamline their pharmacy processes, with patient safety and cost efficiencies as the goal.

Prashant Natarajan, vice president of strategy and products at H2O.ai, says he believes AI can benefit not only healthcare organizations' workflows, but individual patients' lives, and wants to hear other HIMSS24 attendees' AI success stories.

Patient responsibility is growing due to more high deductible health plans, says Colleen Hall, SVP and Revenue Cycle leader at Kodiak Solutions.

The two longtime CIOs discuss their own care journeys, and how they were inspired to write a book for patients who may be starting their own encounters with a health system that isn't always easy to navigate.

Dr. Melek Somai, a top voice in health IT, highlights the health system's efforts to use artificial intelligence to, among other things, streamline patient scheduling and provide personalized preventive care recommendations.

Lars Maaløe, cofounder and chief technology officer of Corti, says the Danish company's technology can improve the efficiency and efficacy of provider-patient encounters.

Dr. Christopher Sharp, chief medical information officer at Stanford Health Care, relays how the health system creates and employs generative AI for documentation assistance, clinical decision support and to improve the patient experience.

Dr. Jonathan Chen, assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, highlights his upcoming HIMSS24 session on discerning what is real in AI and potential effects on patient care.

Technology can play a role in internal and external communication for discharges and transport, says Dr. Will O'Connor, CMIO at TigerConnect.

"Our mission is to connect EMS providers with their ecosystems of care," said Jonathon Feit, CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies. AI can ensure EMS has situational awareness while moving patients, helping to avoid responder burnout.