The PACSman Pontificates: Dog tired after HIMSS 2024

Michael J. Cannavo.Lying in bed the night after my visit to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2024 meeting in Orlando with my legs moving like Elvis in concert and my kidneys on overdrive from all the water I drank trying to stay hydrated, I heard the music from the movie Chariots of Fire running through my head. I looked it up this morning and understood why. “This is the story of two men who run ... not to run ... but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals.” That pretty much summarizes how I felt after a full day walking the exhibit hall trying to assess the PACS and AI market at what is by all accounts an IT show. AI was the talk of the show with seemingly every other vendor promoting AI except those within the medical imaging community. It seems that AI, or at least what is promoted as AI, is being used for all sorts of data. The most popular application was sorting through the vast amounts of patient data to pull out relevant pieces of information for specific patient encounters and population health traits. This automated data analysis is designed to target patients for additional care or resources, to streamline diagnosis, workflow, or aid in data mining or identifying patterns in data. This is very time-consuming and difficult for humans to do accurately or easily and a perfect application of AI. All over the show floor, other AI offerings were seen in population health, revenue cycl...
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