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Agentic AI offers the potential to streamline clinical workflows, but healthcare organizations must carefully assess its risks to ensure safe and effective implementation.
In a panel discussion, IT professionals and health system executives discussed the challenges of implementing AI across diverse healthcare settings.
In a panel discussion, experts emphasized that AI must align with clinical workflows, reduce cognitive load, and support – not replace – clinicians.
The organizations will co-develop AI playbooks, tools, a new certification program and best practices for health AI.
Banner Health built an in-house, enterprise class digital assistant that helps team members with typical tasks that they might use AI on such as summarizing a long document, getting insight or planning, says CTO Mike Reagin.
AI helps reduce time spent in chart search, review and prep enabling end users to see a quick AI generated summary highlighting the most important things that need to be addressed, says Lori Walker, Presbyterian Healthcare Services' CMIO.
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Philipp von Gilsa, CEO of kontakt.io, says the company's real-time location services provide location information for equipment to increase utilization rates and enable clinicians to quickly call for help using wearable duress buttons.
Different types of artificial intelligence help mirror clinical judgement and deliver real-time insights across the areas of the mid-revenue cycle, specifically utilization management, clinical documentation and coding, says William Chan, cofounder and CEO of Iodine Software.
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While robust data governance will be required to ensure trustworthiness and compliance, Velatura Public Benefit Corporation's Prashant Natarajan believes that in 2026, AI will help more providers empower, engage and educate patients.