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Accenture and HIMSS

Humanizing Healthcare in the age of Gen AI

Highlights from HIMSS24 

Listen to the podcasts from our healthcare leaders Rich Birhanzel and Kaveh Safavi to catch the highlights from HIMSS24. The podcasts provide valuable insights into the significance of effective workforce management and the transformative role of generative AI in healthcare. It emphasized the necessity for organizations to embrace these trends, harness technology, and foster innovation to enhance patient outcomes. The discussion shed light on the challenges confronting the healthcare industry and the capacity of technology, specifically generative AI, to mitigate workforce shortages and enhance productivity.

About HIMSS24

HIMSS24 saw the Accenture Health team and over 33,000 other digital health innovators gather from 11-15 March 2024 in Orlando, Florida, to network and explore opportunities for healthcare.

Accenture partnered with HIMSS24 to deliver a series of presentations highlighting the innovative trends that are driving the healthcare industry forward.

Attendees at HIMSS24 had the chance to experience revolutionary health demonstrations, engage in informative sessions addressing healthcare in the era of Gen AI, delve into strategies for tackling workforce shortages, and explore our latest Tech Vision through the health lens.

Our focused sessions

Accenture had 3 speaking sessions at HIMSS with key healthcare leaders

During the event, attendees had the opportunity to discover opportunities of adopting Generative AI. They joined us to discuss the adoption patterns, spending strategies, and key priorities related to Gen AI.

In this session, speakers Jenica McHugh, Matt Durski, Hannah Koczka and Dr. David C. Rhew explored how technology crosses with human potential. They debated strategies for health leaders to enhance human potential through technological advancements.

In this session our speakers, Tej Shah, Managing Director at Accenture, and Dr. Nasim Afsar, Chief Health Officer at Oracle Health, shared insights and strategies to navigate the critical challenge of global clinician shortage.

Innovative Accenture demonstrations

Gen AI led HIMSS24 with new demos, Platforms and Connected Care

Utilizes AI to analyze clinical documentation, identifying key medical terms and correlations. It enhances clinician productivity through a GenAI-powered Chatbot for efficient search across internal and external documents, among other capabilities.

It’s used to generate imaging, pathology, and genetic reports of patients.

Illustrates how GenAI can optimize call centers with automated call summaries, case report generation, and targeted agent coaching and training.

It’s a modular platform that harnesses the power of data across the entire healthcare ecosystem to deliver better insights for population health and precision medicine.

Integrating Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and EMR data with Generative AI and Hyperreal Metaverse technologies can provide a scalable approach to addressing multiple access and quality issues.

Pathfinder, the sophisticated Generative Artificial Intelligence tool developed within Accenture’s Oracle Collaboration space. It's engineered to streamline the learning process for our Oracle delivery teams, providing them with just in time access to critical information.

Utilizes AI to analyze clinical documentation, identifying key medical terms and correlations. It enhances clinician productivity through a GenAI-powered Chatbot for efficient search across internal and external documents, among other capabilities.

This tool predicts new genes, variants and pathways. Leveraging the colliding exponentials of computer sciences and biology (Through digitized human data) to get better, faster, cheaper outcomes in Life Sciences and Health Research and Development.

HIMSS Corporate Member

Accenture is proud to join forces with HIMSS as a Corporate Member to be a catalyst for progress, collaborating and sharing knowledge with industry stakeholders who are committed to transforming global health and wellness through information and technology. We are excited to work together to innovate and transform the landscape of Health IT together.

Who is going to be there?

Rich Birhanzel

Senior Managing Director – Global Health Lead

Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD

Senior Managing Director – Consulting Global Health

Andrew Truscott

Managing Director – Health, Technology Lead, Global

Tejash Shah, MD

Managing Director – Health

Jenica McHugh

Managing Director – Technology Strategy, Global