On the surface, Hims25 looked a lot like conferences beyond Hims. And yes, I will take a privilege point here to keep in mind that this was my thirty and third Hims Conference; I have been attending Himss since 1991, with only two breaks (in 1996, during a labor transition, and in 2020, when the conference was canceled due to the Covid-19 Pandemia), so I have a longitudinal perspective of all this.
Then, yes, last week at the Venetian Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, there were all the usual opening addresses and educational sessions, and the exhibition floor was full and full of activity, as usual. And certainly, the message in the stands was infused by advertising, as always. In addition this year, there was the really horrible addition of DJ positioned in a key area on the exhibition floor, and whose devastating rhythm (there was no real music, only a terrible rhythm) added a new level of amazing noise to an already inherently noisy conference.
But apart from the usual appearance and the horrible DJs, although Hims25 looked a lot like recent hyms, I detected this year a very strong underground current of something else, a kind of mature thought about everything that happens at this time in health information technology. Yes, there was a great expectation on the floor of the exhibition on artificial intelligence, although even there, I found that the discussions with the suppliers were tempered and quite reasonable. And in educational sessions, I did not hear a pyo of advertising; The opposite, in fact. Attending to the IA Preconference Forum, I found that the presentations and panel discussions are very sober, since all the presenters and panelists recognized that the way to follow will be a complex and yes, long, one. And Even as algorithmic ai adoption you have been joined now the adoption of generative ai and More Recently, agentic ai, The very kinds of ai that are Being Being adopted are All Extreme Practical, particularly The Development of Adoption of Generative ai for the creation of draration of draration of draf of draATION of draf of draf of draf Nurses and Staff, To Patient Questions, and of Course, The Ongoing Adoption of Ambient Ai, Including, More and More, Ambient Ai Scribes (and there is the complexity around whether any scribe, either by humans or machines, is the best way to support doctors in the exam room, but that is one theme for another blog).
As I have indicated in several reports during the past week, the discussions of the AI panel last Monday were fascinating in their level of punctuation and practicality. For example, Monday morning, during a panel entitled «Navigation of the integration of AI through change management and the inclusion of the workforce,» Irene Louh, MD, an adult intensivist in Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, said that «AI is very promising for health, for our workforce and teams,» said Dr. Lowe. The core of the medical care provider is that we want to take care of our patients and really improve patient’s health. Over time, medical care has made it more difficult due to structure and function, so in any way that we can really relieve that load is important; There are many opportunities taking advantage of AI, so this is a really exciting moment to be in health and health. «
And Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, of the Duke Institute for Health Innovation in Durham, North Carolina, said that “I would say that most of the cases of use in which I have worked, putting the AI in clinical practice, try to relieve part of the clinical load, for the first -line doctors. Then, one of the first cases of use for us was to identify gaps in care for patients with augmented renal disease and other chronic diseases, trying to help the DOC of primary care to control care and make sure that people receive references, recipes, etc.; as well as identifying emerging sepsis. «
Similarly, practical statements were made during a panel that afternoon entitled «Synaptic Sync: Building Strategic Technology Asnocies for an effective integration of AI», which deepened the problems of suppliers and suppliers association. Neri Cohen, MD, the panel moderator said that, according to the finances of the current hospital organizations, “when we executed margins of 15-20 percent, we had the luxury of time. Today, the vast majority of medical care organizations are executed in sub-1 percent or red margins. So how do we accelerate the processes and think about scalability? asked. And Nancy Beale, Ph.D., RN, Ni-BC, Famia, they replied: “When I think of that in the context of the system, it really is based on the base of the system, to the extent that it has it in your organization to begin. So what assumptions are being used to boost the model? If you have no solid bases, you are buying new curtains for your home, but the base is falling apart. Then you have to have a solid base, and everything goes back to, what is the problem you are trying to solve? None of those things is really separated. AI is a tool, like all software. «
Clearly, all panelists on Monday sang from the same song of practicality and common sense. And that really surprised me, since I had been attending the AI Preconference Forum for a few years since it has been added to the list of selections of the Preconference Forum, that this year’s discussions were more pragmatic than ever.
And that gives me hope, because it is clear that the leaders who lead AI to patient care organizations are adopting very practical approaches to implement technology, which do not savagely understand the brightest object available or hurry through without thinking. In fact, the Government of AI was a very big issue on Monday.
So I have to say that this could have seemed the most pragmatic Hims Conference that I have experienced so far. Of course, I could only sit in so many sessions and have so many conversations at the conference. But I am driven, even when we enter a period of incredible uncertainty of policies and payments at the federal level, that health IT leaders throughout the country are investing and adopting new information technologies more carefully than ever. And it will be fascinating to listen and participate in conversations in Hims26, which once again will take place at the Venetian Sands Convention Center. We are going to get rid of those ridiculous DJs, okay?
