Generative artificial intelligence (AI) was a hot topic at the HIMSS Global Health Conference, which highlighted innovation in improving outcomes and streamlining the healthcare industry.
The conference, run by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, brought together more than 40,000 professionals from big tech companies and startups on April 17-20 in Chicago.
Generative (AI), a type of AI found in ChatGPT and Bard, and other innovations promise to pull the healthcare industry into a more connected and secure future where data insights help both doctors and patients.
Transforming Healthcare Records And Practice
AI tools can reduce paperwork, a considerable bottleneck and inefficiency for healthcare providers and insurance companies. They also can improve medical recordkeeping by automating data entry and record management tasks, taking them away from humans and reducing manual entry errors. AI can populate various fields on electronic health record (EHR) platforms, and a user could set the AI to complete future tasks and information throughout the patient’s care journey.
Healthcare practitioners could use a tool like ChatGPT to summarize and organize patients’ data, from their medical histories to their current condition and vitals. A healthcare AI could act as a complement to doctors and nurses by making real-time, data-based recommendations. Doctors could take their dictation within an AI platform, which would then understand how to summarize the data and put relevant information with the right patient or know when to send a referral or a request for a second opinion. It could spot complex or rare drug interactions, provide physicians with a list of possible conditions and remind them of various clinical guidelines.
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Patients could use an AI tool in waiting rooms or after visits to learn more about their medical condition or treatment plans in plain language. The sophistication of generative AI platforms makes them ideal for translating a diagnosis and creating readable and helpful content as well as answering questions. Patients could use a dynamic tool that adjusts its answers depending on the patient’s evolving condition or the physician’s changing orders.
While these types of tools face regulatory roadblocks surrounding strict healthcare data protection standards, tech firms will continue to innovate to build compliant solutions to take advantage of the opportunity.
Healthcare Innovation from Tech Giants
The HIMSS conference attendees came from a variety of firms, including tech giants Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. Microsoft presented an array of innovative technologies, including secure virtual appointments through Microsoft Teams and the integration of AI-driven Microsoft Power Virtual Agents into healthcare applications. The company also showcased its shift-management solution that helps address the shortage of skilled care providers by improving shift scheduling through user-friendly applications.
Amazon’s AWS group offered its solution for helping providers get more out of their health data. It detailed the ways healthcare companies can use AWS to migrate and modernize their data while also improving security and setting themselves up for AI and machine learning integrations.
The 2024 HIMSS conference is set for March 11-15 in Orlando, Florida, an event that promises to highlight the speedy advancement of AI and the promise of innovations yet to come.
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