Heading into HIMSS24, Prashant Natarajan, vice president of strategy and products at H2O.ai, says he’s looking forward to hearing strategies and working together within the HIMSS framework.  

St. Luke’s, based in Duluth, Minnesota, has officially completed its affiliation with Wausau, Wisconsin-based Aspirus Health.  The expanded health system now operates 19 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations with nearly 14,000 team members, including 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians across northeastern Minnesota, northern and central Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 

As CEO of health IT company Augmedix, Manny Krakaris knows how much AI can benefit clinicians. He also knows its current limitations. “AI’s been overhyped,” Krakaris said of recent buzz around generative AI. “Technology can do the heavy lifting but it still needs someone with expertise to provide that last mile, ‘the sanity check.’” 

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has announced that the state has secured a $5 million prejudgment remedy against Stone Academy, a now-defunct for-profit nursing school.