Thanks to my wonderful Colorado colleagues at: Colorado HIMSS for co-running our Regional Epic UGM, that we called RESCUE: Regional EHR Seminars: Colorado UGM Epic, 2024.
We hosted 160 attendees, from Colorado HIMSS (health information management systems society) Thanks to Sarah Sample-Reif, president Colorado chapter, and many others from CHIMSS. Also, colleagues from Aspen, Boulder, CommonSpirit, Children’s Hospital Colorado, AdventHealth, Intermountain, Denver Health, National Jewish, Sidney Regional Medical Center, Nebraska, and our own UCHealth colleagues.
We had great talks on AI in draft responses to patients, an ambient notes panel, a secure chat and unified communications panel, breakout sessions for clinical nursing informatics, and developers and analysts in IT, and physician/APP informatics.
Dr. English led us through our recently published paper: Utility of Artificial Intelligence Generative Draft Replies to Patient Messages. In which we found that nurses like the draft replies MUCH MORE than medical assistants or physicians/APP’s. How about that. More in the article!
We ended the day with Janet Campbell from Epic giving us a “drinking-from-the-firehose” talk on Cool Stuff ahead from Epic. 100+ AI-powered workflow tools coming soon!
Janet Campbell (Epic), Jennifer Simpson MD (Conference organizer), CT Lin, random local blogger.
We also enjoyed a keynote by Dr. Chris Longhurst, Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer at UC San Diego Health on the Learning Health System and the future of informatics.
Dr. Longhurst arriving and lending us his cool California vibe.
He calls out that AI use in healthcare does require thoughtful deployment. Already federal and state bodies are thinking about what oversight looks like.
He also calls out that implemented AI algorithms are rarely researched, and researched algorithms are rarely implemented, a substantial paradox, and this has led to his establishing a center at UCSD to tackle exactly this problem. We’re with you, Dr. Longhurst.
He ended by blowing our minds with an AI-generated PODCAST with simulated hosts analyzing a set of papers, that happen to be on generative AI and future risks and benefits. Have a listen at the QR code. He notes that the “GPS in a cornfield” reference that the simulated podcast hosts talk about is a metaphor he did not think of, and is completely appropriate.
Mind blowing.
I leave you with a ukulele performance of ChatGPT sung (with audience accompaniment) to Sweet Caroline.
RESCUE 2024 is in the books! See you next year!
