In this interview, Dr. Matthew Sullivan, CMIO of Advocate Health Southeast Region, delves into the topic of clinical decision support (CDS), exploring its evolution from basic alerts in EMRs to the potential of AI-enhanced tools. Dr. Sullivan emphasizes the importance of CDS in improving patient care and highlights the challenges of integrating AI in clinical settings. He also touches on the need for a balanced approach to AI governance, ensuring safety and efficacy while helping clinicians adapt to new technologies.<br /> Watch or listen below; scroll down to read <br /> <br /> LISTEN HERE USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR SUBSCRIBE THROUGH YOUR FAVORITE <a href="https://healthsystemcio.com/podcasts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://healthsystemcio.com/podcasts/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1585746312517000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGlikywUFfTGub6l88sXJkQLnauDw">PODCASTING SERVICE</a>. <br /> <br /> Anthony: Welcome to healthsystemsCIO’s Interview with Dr. Matthew Sullivan, CMIO with Advocate Health Southeast Region. I’m Anthony Guerra, Founder and Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Sullivan, thanks for joining me today.<br /> Dr. Sullivan: Good afternoon, Anthony. Thanks for having me.<br /> Anthony: Looking forward to having a little chat. Can you start off by telling me about your organization and your role?<br /> Dr. Sullivan: Advocate Health is the merger between Advocate Aurora and Atrium Health. That makes us I think the second largest not for profit healthcare system in the nation and certainly one of the larger overall. We’ve brought that merger together successfully. We operate as a single enterprise today and of course, as a larger organization, I’m one of many of our CMIO teams. We have lots that do the work as you can imagine that keep the lights on.<br /> Anthony: Very good. What we’re going to talk about is your session coming up at the CHIME Fall Forum. People could take a look at this and hopefully pop in and see you when they’re at the show. The session is called The Time is Now to Embrace Next Generation Clinical Decision Support. First off, why did you pick this particular topic to address?<br /> Dr. Sullivan: Clinical decision support is one of the underpinnings of the best things that could come out of installing EMRs across the nation. Those of us that have been around for a long time recall that paper to electronic medical record transition. That transition came with the promise of supporting taking better care of patients along with the idea of the triple aim or quadruple aim, depending on what your focus might be. With clinical decision support in its original phase, this is how do you stop someone and tell them that there’s an allergy to penicillin or another medication. That’s sort of rudimentary clinical decision support.<br /> Now, here we are in the world where AI is running rampant in every conference that we ever sat through in the last two years and we really have different governing approaches to how to install AI as part of a tool for clinical decision support and everything in between. That is a huge spectrum of things that could easily be seen as running rampant if left unchecked. I think there’s a ton of things to talk through there, relative to what do we think of clinical decision support at its current rate, how do we think it should modulate, what does the future look like as it relates to better decision tools, more complex algorithms into decision tools that will help anyone of our docs just really take better care of patients without expending a ton more energy.<br /> I think that is part of what people think of in clinical decision support, not what they complain about. They complain about being stopped all the time, right, and try to second guess them. But the reality is clinical decision support, if done well, hits the 5 rights and gives you the right information at the right time so that you don’t make a mistake or that you consider something ...

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Clinical Decision Support Now Supercharged with AI; But Tried-and-True Processes Still Key to Incremental Improvement, says Advocate Health Southeast Region CMIO Dr. Matthew Sullivan

OCT 30, 202418 MIN
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Clinical Decision Support Now Supercharged with AI; But Tried-and-True Processes Still Key to Incremental Improvement, says Advocate Health Southeast Region CMIO Dr. Matthew Sullivan

OCT 30, 202418 MIN

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<p>In this interview, Dr. Matthew Sullivan, CMIO of Advocate Health Southeast Region, delves into the topic of clinical decision support (CDS), exploring its evolution from basic alerts in EMRs to the potential of AI-enhanced tools. Dr. Sullivan emphasizes the importance of CDS in improving patient care and highlights the challenges of integrating AI in clinical [&#8230;]</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://healthsystemcio.com/2024/10/30/cds-matthew-sullivan/">Clinical Decision Support Now Supercharged with AI; But Tried-and-True Processes Still Key to Incremental Improvement, says Advocate Health Southeast Region CMIO Dr. Matthew Sullivan</a> on <a href="https://healthsystemcio.com">healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.</a></p>