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When implementing AI-powered assistants and ambient technologies, it is essential to know if what you are buying is an actual assistant and if it has features beyond just clinical documentation, says Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki.

The struggle is that "you can't just plop something in the middle of a system even though it has good effectiveness and expect people to change their behavior or trust it," says Dr. Cole Zanetti at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame roping champion Stran Smith discusses how he discovered he had a hole in his heart and how his journey to finding treatment allowed him to return to roping and continue both his career and his lifestyle.

During an EHR transition, it is essential to keep the patient at the center of the transition, ensuring collaboration with clinicians and patients is done early, says Epic Emeritus CIO Kelli Garrison, founder and CEO of Verdant Consulting.

Jenn Wong, Abbott's divisional VP of global clinical and regulatory affairs, and Dr. Joshua Eloge, Rush associate director of the Woman's Board Depression Treatment Research Center, discuss their research on treatment-resistant depression.

If organizations are more transparent with clinicians and patients about AI adoption and deployment, stakeholders would feel more secure with it, says Nicole Ramage, senior market insights manager at HIMSS.

While most provider and payer organizations are using some form of AI, very few are getting demonstrable value at scale across the enterprise, says Tom Lawry, managing director of Second Century Tech.

Healthcare organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks like phishing scams during IT upgrades and business restructuring. Security awareness is important during any changes, says Ven Auvaa, ArmorPoint's information security director.

When it comes to making strategic AI investment deals, companies need to articulate their competitive advantage and how they view the market around them, says Jason Smith, venture acceleration fellow at MATTER.

While commercial software is very good at providing clinical decision support applications, it is essential to identify a targeted goal within the software, says Dr. Ryan Sadeghian, CMIO at the University of Toledo.