Digests

After developing a strong relationship with federal law enforcement to encourage support around tech security, Corewell Health’s Information Security & CISO Scott Dresen attended the FBI CISO Academy over a year ago.

UCLA Health is dedicated to providing the best care to their patients and researching new treatments, and they're taking a responsible approach to implementing...

At MetroHealth, the well-being of their employees is just as important as the well-being of their patients. From their award-winning Employee Assistance & Wellness Program to their Opportunity Center and Employee Hardship Fund, MetroHealth is dedicated to helping their workers meet their Social Drivers of Health (SDoH).

They discussed the pros and cons of foundational models, and how to best assess their use in healthcare. The advantages of such models include better accuracy, simplified deployment, emergent clinical abilities, and novel human-AI interfaces. But there are drawbacks too, such as a lack of shared evaluation frameworks and datasets.

Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia, is revolutionizing community health through collaborative initiatives. With a focus on mental health, socioeconomic factors, primary care, and COVID-19, Carilion Clinic invests in community outreach and education.

From the Turing test of the 1950s to ChatGPT today, artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for a long while even as healthcare systems have wrestled with definitions, uses and governance.

Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago has been on the cutting edge of healthcare for years, and their Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program is leading the way. As part of their Telemedicine program, RPM involves wearables, sensors, implanted monitors, mobile apps, and patient-generated health data.

As Ling Chu, MD, Associate CMIO at UT Southwestern and David Wetherhold, MD, CMIO at Scripps Health discussed at the SI Clinical Informatics Summit, theft of provider identity is a growing concern. Recently, David was alerted to suspicious controlled substance refill attempts using a colleague’s details. Fortunately, the pharmacist noticed the provider’s phone number didn’t match previous records and the attempts were blocked.

Their “exam room of the future” is equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) listening solutions to document care during in-office and telehealth visits, which increases physician attention on patients by removing reliance on the computer and decreases documentation time by 18 percent and -volume by 30 percent.

Corewell Health's (CH's) Enterprise Disease Burden Program (EDBP) focuses on improving population wellness by documenting patient conditions accurately and completely and improving quality of care.  EDBP's high-level initiatives include analytics and technology, operations, and physician best practice, with benefits including better information for physicians, optimal recapture, and increased opportunities for disease burden identification.