Ambient listening synthetic intelligence and cloud computing are two of the applied sciences Marcus Perez is conserving a eager eye on on the Exhibit Corridor of HIMSS25. To not point out digital well being, which is near his coronary heart.
Marcus Perez is president of Altera Digital Well being, in Sales space 2532 at HIMSS25. The corporate is a well being IT vendor of digital well being programs.
Shopping the Exhibit Corridor, Perez tells attendees to not get caught up in “shiny object syndrome” – he says healthcare executives ought to know from expertise that the trade doesn’t transfer as rapidly as expectations.
Healthcare IT Information sat down with Perez to debate his firm’s primary message on the convention, the largest applied sciences he’s seeing on the present, and recommendation he has for hospital and well being system attendees.
Q. What’s the main message you might be relaying to HIMSS25 attendees?
A. Our primary message to hospital and well being system executives is that we measure our success by our shoppers’ outcomes. Well being IT distributors ought to be within the enterprise of fixing the complicated issues organizations are going through and never simply assembly regulatory necessities or growing new options for growth’s sake.
We goal to allow clinicians to deal with affected person care by automating administrative duties, offering real-time insights and simplifying workflows. Our imaginative and prescient for sufferers is to empower them to proactively handle their well being by way of seamless self-service functions for personalised care and knowledgeable choice making.
For organizations, our efforts are centered on bettering affected person outcomes, optimizing monetary efficiency and enabling operational excellence by harnessing the ability of information in actual time the place and when it is wanted. This imaginative and prescient displays the suggestions shoppers have shared on the highest priorities for his or her organizations, the suppliers they make use of and the sufferers they serve.
Q. What are the high-profile applied sciences you are seeing this 12 months and why do you imagine they’re essential to healthcare?
A. Although cloud computing shouldn’t be new, it’s changing into more and more essential on this subsequent section of healthcare’s digital evolution. By leveraging cloud know-how, healthcare organizations can provide suppliers real-time entry to crucial info throughout varied departments to facilitate higher care coordination, improve medical choice making, cut back the danger of errors and enhance affected person outcomes.
The cloud additionally offers the infrastructure, scalability and computing energy wanted to deal with giant volumes of information. That is important for organizations trying to broaden care supply choices, akin to distant affected person monitoring and telehealth, in addition to a spread of synthetic intelligence functions.
As AI takes middle stage at HIMSS25, I anticipate quite a lot of exercise round functions that allow suppliers to each doc and use information extra seamlessly. Ambient listening AI, for instance, alleviates documentation burdens by capturing patient-provider interactions within the background, producing a word, and pulling the datapoints from that word into structured sections of the medical document.
Documentation has turn out to be more and more laborious for suppliers, so I anticipate to listen to many discussions on applied sciences giving them helpful time again. Equally, suppliers typically should dig by way of affected person data to seek out the data they want. With superior analytics capabilities in place on the level of care, suppliers could make well timed, knowledgeable choices that mirror a extra full image of the affected person’s well being.
Q. What recommendation are you might be providing CIOs and different IT leaders and employees on the present flooring?
A. Preserve an open thoughts on the present and use it as a chance to discover options out there. Massive distributors typically prescribe a one-size-fits-all strategy to their programs that rigidly field within the buyer. Nonetheless, every group is exclusive and deserves the identical stage of service and personalization that they goal to ship to sufferers.
The complete healthcare trade would profit from extra wholesome competitors within the well being IT house as this pushes distributors of all sizes to take a position extra in analysis and growth.
I’d additionally advise attendees to keep away from getting caught up in “shiny object syndrome.” Throughout the exhibit corridor, you will see tons of sales space signage from firms promising to rework organizations with modern improvements. Nonetheless, we all know from expertise that healthcare doesn’t transfer as rapidly as our expectations.
In a fancy trade the place rules abound and lives are at stake, specializing in incremental, sustainable achievements is a extra reasonable method to drive longer-term progress. The journey to raised healthcare is much less of a dash and extra of a hike. It’s important to take quite a lot of smaller steps and clear hurdles alongside the way in which, however the beneficial properties made turn out to be extra evident as you close to the summit.
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