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The health IT landscape is bubbling with activity on multiple fronts.
Artificial intelligence, for example, is being deployed at hospitals and health systems across the country – mostly in operational settings but also in some clinical use cases. It's the hottest technology today.
Remote patient monitoring is coming to be seen as an integral part of keeping patients out of hospitals – and preventing them from returning when they are in them.
The cloud continues to evolve and serve as a key part of healthcare infrastructure.
And wearables have become an important component of keeping patients healthy.
But what's in store for these varied technologies in healthcare for the rest of 2025 and beyond?
Michael Orlando, corporate and IP transactions attorney at Sheppard Mullin and a member of the firm's digital health team, is immersed in health IT and has an eagle-eye view of the industry. In this week's HIMSSCast, Orlando affords listeners a glimpse at what he sees as the future of these four technologies in healthcare.
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Talking points:
- Overall outlook for the healthcare IT market for the rest of 2025 and beyond.
- How artificial intelligence can safely be integrated into clinical decision-making.
- AI hallucinations cannot be tolerated.
- How hospitals and health systems are balancing HIPAA compliance with evolving cloud-based infrastructures.
- How wearables and remote patient monitoring devices are being integrated into care plans and EHRs.
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