The Boston health system's director of AI operations discusses some challenges and best practices for integrating large language models into research and operational tasks while explicitly excluding direct clinical care. Healthcare IT News
In the last few years, it has become clear that artificial intelligence offers tremendous opportunities to increase efficiency and improve the experience for patients and providers. healthsystemcio.com
Adventist Health said it will use the Epic EHR system across its 440 clinics and 28 hospitals on the West Coast and Hawaii. Kerry Heinrich, president and CEO, said the health system plans to implement the new system by the summer of 2026. Becker’s Health IT
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement directory has made it possible for consumers to clear the hurdle of joining data from multiple electronic health record (EHR) sources. And now Epic is offering new functionalities that capitalize on that fact. Healthcare IT News
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U.S. survey from Siemens Healthineers and The Harris Poll indicates laboratory staff are looking for greater support from automation and AI to offset negative side effects of prolonged understaffing. Siemens Healthineers
While burnout levels may be improving slightly, physicians’ administrative burden still remains a major issue. Providers are hungry for more tools designed to simplify these tasks, namely documentation, a new report shows. MedCity News
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This article explores the transformative applications and future directions of AI in healthcare, focusing on key areas such as GenAI, RAG, Med LLM’s, Enterprise search, secure and private search, and multi-agent AI systems. Damo Blog
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Last week, we conducted the CHIME online focus group, with our esteemed CHIME healthcare provider members, discussing Enterprise AI Adoption and Governance in Healthcare. The focus was on evaluating current AI applications within healthcare systems, discussing AI’s potential to enhance operational efficiency and patient care, and addressing the challenges of data governance and security. Damo Blog
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Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) has gone on a journey from being the least efficient user of technology in the Blue Cross system to the most efficient as measured on a technology cost per employee basis. Not only that but they have absorbed waves of new technology: cloud, new security protocols, extensive mobile support, more than 20 production AI applications and now generative AI (gen AI). Today, they also have three gen AI applications that they use and are planning on selling to other firms, all while complying with more than 700 regulatory bodies. Getting there meant undertaking a multi-year journey to renovate their core infrastructure to deal with the emerging complexity and member demands in their marketplace, while simultaneously increasing their agility. Interviews with the BCBSM management team identified seven principles that guided their actions. HBR
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