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Michael Ash, MD, is the president and chief operating officer for Nebraska Medicine, based in Omaha, Nebraska. Q: You’ve had quite a career—starting as an internal medicine physician, moving into health IT at Cerner (now Oracle), and serving as a chief transformation officer before stepping into your COO role. How have these experiences shaped your leadership approach? A: I've always been interes...

Eric Spann, MD, is a family medicine physician at Baxter Health, based in Mountain View, Arkansas. Q: Dr. Spann, how do you envision AI impacting your day-to-day work, your patient interactions and what defines good medicine? A: If we thought that addressing “Dr. Google” was a big part of our daily work, this is going to be Dr. Google on steroids. Patients are now going to have a large...

Since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022, we’ve been busy discussing with health care stakeholders how to best plan for and use AI across their organizations, from supporting clinical decision-making to reducing administrative burdens. What I didn’t plan for was having nearly half of these discussions focus on supply chain. But perhaps this shouldn’t be a surprise—wh...

Health care organizations have turned the corner on pandemic recovery and are now strongly focused on strategy and investment. Day-to-day operations have stabilized for most. But the industry’s competitive landscape has irrevocably shifted, and the performance gap between the best and worst has widened. Health systems must chart this new territory with less capital, which makes strategy&mdas...

I've started labeling cybersecurity as the "Achilles' heel" of digital health. Across meetings, workshops, and events, Sg2 experts have touted the opportunities that telehealth, AI, and other digital technologies can bring to health care, but cybersecurity risk always pumps the breaks on those discussions. It's the looming dark cloud. The elephant in the room. A digital skeptic's favorite topic to...

I had just finished giving a presentation to a room of hospital CEOs on the current AI landscape when one of the executives raised her hand. “Is AI really going to be a thing in health care? We’ve spent over a decade installing EHRs in our system and all they have done is increased cost and burnout. And with cybersecurity threats, I feel AI is only going to make things worse,” she said. I responde...

Seeking to outrun the growing shadow of newer conferences like HLTH and ViVE, the 2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition brought together roughly 30,000 attendees to discuss the latest in health care IT trends and product developments. The topics covered were nothing unexpected: AI dominated session headlines and vendor pitches, but there was still plenty of attention spent on other ...

Prioritize where to begin care at home efforts in your organization Care at home is not a new concept to many in the healthcare sector as it has existed in some form for the past 30 years. But the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need to deliver care differently, specifically leveraging digital health capabilities and shifting care into the home setting. According to Sg2’s Impact of Change&...

Editor’s note: Joe Cummings, PhD, Vizient Technology Program Director, authored this post, which was originally published on Sg2’s parent company Vizient Inc’s blog. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on our country’s most vulnerable populations, from who gets the SARS-CoV-2 virus to its impact on mental health and access to care. For example, the pandemic ...

Editor’s note: Heather Ramirez, MS-HSM, Vizient Ventures Director, also contributed to this post, which was originally published on Sg2’s parent company Vizient Inc’s blog. As hospitals grapple with how virtual and digital health will change the health care landscape, it’s hard to ignore its continued influence and disruption since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly two ye...