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With ongoing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, Ian Shakil, chief strategy officer at Commure, discusses the potential role of ambient AI documentation in infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response.
With predictive risk scores and care management data, providers can proactively target "high and rising risk populations" and treat behavioral health with urgency, says Yagnesh Vadgama, VP of payor strategy and network development at CentralReach.
Dr. Nuria Ruiz Hombrebueno says Madrid's Regional Government has created a Ministry for Digitalization and a Directorate General for Digital Health to drive interoperability, AI, data and remote monitoring initiatives across the region.
Jay Anders, Medicomp CMO, cautions that clinicians are concerned about AI tools' hallucinations and inconsistent outputs, so more governance and stronger guardrails are needed to get their buy-in.
The CDC's Public Health Data Strategy plans to create a secure data ecosystem that provides timely information to patients, clinicians and local public health agencies, says Matthew Ritchey, director of technology and products.
The next wave of artificial intelligence for radiology combines silos of information and uses "visual intelligence" to answer challenging imaging questions that can improve treatment decisions, explains Dr. Chirag Parghi, CMO of DeepLook Medical.
Mikhail Golovnya, senior advisory data scientist at Minitab, says that modern AI, although it is now more accessible to non-scientists, is still just a form of machine learning and is not as powerful as some believe.
Peiling Yap, chief scientist at HealthAI, says that many responsible AI projects never move beyond pilot stages because weak governance and a lack of clear regulatory guardrails block safe scaling and widespread adoption.
Lauri Billingsley and Mari Tietze of the University of Texas at Arlington discuss their work using AI-powered geomapping to identify areas in Texas without nearby maternal care services and pinpoint where high-risk mothers live.
Yashbir Singh, assistant professor of radiology at Mayo Clinic, says his team is using an AI model to assist in diagnosing cholangiocarcinoma from images and has published research demonstrating its benefit.
Oren Nissim, CEO of Brook Health, discusses the program, which starts on July 5, and what broadening providers' access to certain tech-enabled care options could mean for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions.
Dr Catia Pinto and Dr Tapani Piha of the HIMSS Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe (DHAGE) say this year's meeting tackled difficult topics like promoting digital literacy and successfully scaling healthcare AI.