It’s been a while since I attended an AMIA meeting and the #CIC24 Minneapolis meeting this week was energizing. I expect to be a regular given all that is happening with medical informatics and the growing power it has to drive care transformation. It’s an obvious growth area and AMIA is leading the charge. I had three takeaways. 🎯 Substantial and diverse work was covered on documentation burden, provider and nurse impact, and POC work on reducing these burdens. Inbasket, not surprisingly, was covered in half a dozen or more poster/sessions. With one exception, the work primarily focused on Epic’s AI-enabled solution. I'm looking forward to a lot more pilot work with this and other solutions, including those developed by leading healthcare systems. 🎯 It should come as no surprise that use of ML/AI/LLM was dominant, touching every area of care big and small. I expect this theme will consume all the oxygen in the room at future meetings and will inevitably drive rapid growth in the demand for informatics talent. BTW, my favorite session was “Prompt Engineering 101: Evidence-Based Practices for your Health System.” (Dong-han Yao, MD). A standing room only entertaining and highly informative presentation. It’s worth viewing if you missed it. 🎯 One of the first items that caught my eye at #CIC24 was the AMIA framing statement: “Being dedicated to turning innovation into practice-ready solutions that make an immediate impact on patient care.” It would be great to see more provider-industry collaborations at this meeting to accelerate healthcare towards this vision. Looking forward to the #AMIA November meeting.
Thank you for sharing the takeaways! Dr. Walter "Buzz" Stewart
Always valuable to hear your thoughts and insights at this transformative moment. James Shanahan
Good looking CEO!
Walter "Buzz" Stewart it was great covering ground with you at #CIC24. Looking forward to putting what we heard to use 🔥
You are 70 going on 25. So awesome, how dedicated you are.
Buzz, you look great. 😀
Great to hear from you, Buzz!
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3moI was only there for a half-day on Tuesday. Wish I would’ve run into you!