Becker's Healthcare October 7, 2024
In a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, AI has become a key focus for health systems and healthcare vendors. However, the ability to harness its full potential could be hindered by staffing challenges within IT departments.
Dennis Chornenky, chief AI adviser at Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health, told Becker’s that there are gaps in IT talent across hospitals, even those that are well-resourced.
“Most hospitals struggle with securing the IT talent needed to deploy AI solutions, let alone build and design them in-house,” he said.
This challenge will intensify as companies like Epic begin to roll out a wide range of AI-enabled features.
“Epic alone has something like 80 to 100 new AI-powered capabilities set to roll out...