Mike Miliard

CHICAGO – "Without health there is nothing," said Hans Kluge, Regional Director for Europe at the World Health Organization, during the morning keynote Thursday at HIMSS23.

Albert Marinez, chief analytics officer at Intermountain Healthcare, offers perspective on artificial intelligence for performance improvement: building effective models with "AI building blocks," getting buy-in from various stakeholders and more.

Healthcare organizations including ONC, Advocate Health, Mt. Sinai, Tufts Medicine, UC Davis Health and the VA are participating, and will share implementation tips and best practices to enable broader adoption of the interoperability standard.

With artificial intelligence evolving at rapid speed, Dr. Sonya Makhni, medical director of Mayo Clinic Platform Solutions, discusses promising use cases, deployment challenges, algorithmic integrity, patient safety and more.

At the HIMSS23 opening keynote discussion, artificial intelligence innovators debated about how to weigh the "tremendous opportunities" for healthcare algorithms with the "risks – some of which we may not yet know about."

It's a "completely different environment" compared to just a few years ago, said one expert at HIMSS23, as CISOs and others offered perspective on navigating expensive and exacting cyber policies.

At HIMSS23 on Monday, leaders with the HHS 405(d) Program discussed how the updated Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices 2023 Edition and other new tools can help providers and public health groups mitigate cyber threats.

At the HIMSS23 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Nitin Natarajan, Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said protecting against escalating cyberattacks is a "joint effort" between government and the private sector.

The newest of HIMSS Analytics' maturity models, C-COMM is designed to help non-acute provider organizations track and benchmark their digital transformation efforts in primary care, telehealth, maternal and child wellness, behavioral health and more.

With quantum computing now a reality, and poised to turbocharge machine learning and precision medicine across healthcare, one expert who's speaking at HIMSS23 says it's time to prepare.