Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has 36 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

Rush University Medical Center on genAI
By Bill Siwicki 11:28 am April 16, 2025
In the test, 74% of clinicians said the ambient and genAI technology reduced their levels of burnout and 95% wanted to continue using the technology. Further, clinicians used 25 non-English languages.
Sameer Sethi of Hackensack Meridian Health on AI
By Bill Siwicki 01:15 pm April 15, 2025
The CAIO should not just understand both of those disciplines, but intuit what AI is good and bad, what's scalable and whether it's the right fit, says Sameer Sethi, the New Jersey health system's chief AI and insights officer.
Dr. Ateev Mehrotra of Brown University School of Public Health on telehealth policy
By Bill Siwicki 12:39 pm April 14, 2025
Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, chair of the school's department of health services, policy and practice, discusses the frustrations and promise of telehealth reimbursement and regulation – and describes how the current situation is stifling virtual care innovation.
Mouneer Odeh of Cedars-Sinai on Chief AI Officers
By Bill Siwicki 10:33 am April 11, 2025
Chief Data and AI Officer Mouneer Odeh says work on artificial intelligence is like a snowball going downhill – over the next five to 10 years it will build and build until the scale of the impact meets what healthcare requires.
Dr. Doug Morton of Carle Health on diagnostic imaging
By Bill Siwicki 12:31 pm April 10, 2025
Physicians at all eight of its hospitals can use one viewer to see almost all clinical imagery. Patients can view images in the patient portal, too – and 11,000 do so each month.
Dr. Jana Goldberg of Heartbeat Health on telecardiology
By Bill Siwicki 10:56 am April 09, 2025
Nearly half of U.S. counties have no cardiologist nearby. A telecardiologist working at the heart of virtual care and cardiology today shows how the technology is helping with this and other challenges.
Dr. Travis Zack of the University of California at San Francisco on AI
By Bill Siwicki 11:48 am April 07, 2025
The University of California at San Francisco's overarching goal was not to replace human judgment but to enhance it – allowing oncologists to focus on personalized treatment rather than spending valuable time retrieving and verifying information.
By Bill Siwicki 02:53 pm April 04, 2025
Kyle Zebley and Andy Molnar from the American Telemedicine Association dive into four of their most pressing issues after ATA Action recently acquired the former Digital Therapeutics Alliance.
Matthew Temba of Strive Health on machine learning
By Bill Siwicki 11:47 am April 03, 2025
The kidney care provider's build-not-buy effort has shown great results: 30-day readmissions are down 36%, hospitalizations among high-risk patients are down 49% and optimal starts are up 67%.
Geoff Wester of SSM Health on online scheduling
By Bill Siwicki 11:29 am April 02, 2025
With the EHR technology, the health system achieved a new patient acquisition boost of 19% through its website and has quadrupled its online booking completion rate.

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