It seems like artificial intelligence has applications everywhere in healthcare. But some applications might be better than others.

That's certainly what Dr. Michael Dulin has found in the realm of population health.

Dulin is a nationally recognized leader in the field of healthcare information technology and applying analytics and outcomes research to improve care, drawing on his years of frontline experience to explain how population health should work.

As director of the Academy for Population Health Innovation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he is one of the nation's leading authorities on population health. And AI increasingly is becoming part of his work.

Dulin is this week's guest on HIMSSCast. We discuss AI advancing the integration and curation of complex data required for population health initiatives, AI being used to evaluate the disease burden and risk for population health planning, CIOs and other health IT leaders and clinicians using AI to predict changes in population health needs over time, and much more.

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Talking points:

• How can hospitals, health systems and researchers use AI to advance the integration and curation of complex data required for population health initiatives?

• How can AI be used to evaluate the disease burden and risk for population health planning?

• How can CIOs, other health IT leaders and clinicians use AI to predict changes in population health needs over time?

• How can AI be used to assist with development and deployment of population health interventions, for example, tailored messaging?

• What about patient-facing AI? How can AI be used as a tool to improve self-efficacy engagement of patients?

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