At HIMSS24, Heather O’Sullivan, Mass General Brigham’s president of healthcare at home, said that the health system wants to move 10% of all its medical patients to the home. She argued that there is “no greater model of care for being patient-centric,” and highlighted the care modality’s ability to alleviate burnout for some healthcare workers.

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AI is meant to have a synergistic relationship with clinicians rather than replace them, pointed out David McSwain, chief medical information officer at UNC Health, during an interview at HIMSS24. In his view, both humans and AI are fallible, but their errors are usually of a different type — so both should be working together to reduce the overall error rate.

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During an interview this month at HIMSS24, David Vawdrey — Geisinger’s chief data and informatics officer — said health systems should spend more time designing their plan for evaluating success when it comes to tech pilots.

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During a recent panel, Flare Capital Partners’ Michael Greeley and Mount Sinai’s Robbie Freeman shared some attributes that they think stand out among digital health startups that have found success in today’s environment.

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During a panel at HIMSS, three health system leaders explained what digital transformation means to them and how they’re seeking it play out at their organizations.

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After a healthcare cyberattack, the impacted organization often doesn’t want to divulge a lot of information, Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker said last week at HIMSS. However, he thinks healthcare organizations should be more transparent with their peers after an attack because “no one system operates independent of everybody else.”

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This year’s HIMSS conference featured a variety of news announcements — from acquisitions to new product launches to advanced partnerships. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for six of the conference’s most notable announcements.

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During a keynote address at HIMSS, Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert Garrett outlined four priorities that should guide healthcare organizations’ AI strategies. He said that healthcare leaders need to take care to ensure their AI efforts seek to address one if not all of these.

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At HIMSS, GE HealthCare and Mass General Brigham announced that they are integrating foundation models into their collaborative AI research and development. Foundation models could help developers create healthcare AI tools “10 times faster than in the past,” according to Parminder Bhatia, GE HealthCare’s chief AI officer.

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At HIMSS, Philips and AWS announced that they are expanding their collaboration with the goal of scaling digitized pathology slides in the cloud. The partners seek to help pathology labs better store and analyze vast volumes of data, as well as adopt more streamlined, cloud-based workflows to reduce clinician burnout.

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At HIMSS, Google Cloud announced new AI features designed to assist providers, payers and any other healthcare organizations seeking to make better use of their clinical data.

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On Monday at HIMSS24, Innovaccer unveiled a preview of its new AI copilot for providers, which is slated to go on the market by the end of 2024. The solution is a portable tablet device designed to provide clinicians with point-of-care support — it flags care and coding gaps, assists with clinical documentation and advises clinicians on possible diagnosis pathways.

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