Quality and Safety

The Montreal health system is focused on helping its leaders drive care transformation and giving them the tools to do so. Access to data is essential, and self-service analytics are key to that goal.

Amprion has partnered with Mayo Clinic Laboratories to expand access to its test, which detects misfolded proteins associated with Parkinson’s, Lewy body dementia, and multiple system atrophy. Russ Lebovitz, the company's CEO, explains.

Kevin Olson, who strives to make his Epic electronic health record meet the needs of his hospital staff, talks about training, physician alignment, usability testing and other best practices.

Integrating data and AI to improve decision-making and the patient experience; training staff to lead AI adoption; creating trustworthy AI; and much more, presented by Accenture's Global Health Technology Lead Andy Truscott.

The health system's 10-year project uses proven digital tools to help patients with conditions such as hypertension and diabetes better manage their care. Dan Shields, Ochsner's CEO of digital medicine, explains.

Anika Gardenhire, RN, chief digital and information officer at the 30-hospital health system, is working to improve the provider and patient experience with ambient listening, augmented intelligence and more.

UC San Diego Health works with clinicians, patients, designers and IT teams to develop digital tools that improve patient experience, says Keisuke Nakagawa, director of strategic impact at UCSD and a HIMSS25 Changemaker.

Chief Data and AI Officer Mouneer Odeh says work on artificial intelligence is like a snowball going downhill – over the next five to 10 years it will build and build until the scale of the impact meets what healthcare requires.

Ethical and equitable use of open data is a critical challenge for AI development in healthcare, requiring global collaboration to balance innovation with privacy and security, says Antoine Tesnière, professor at George Pompidou European Hospital.  

Global awardees reflected on their transformation journeys as HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf emphasized how achieving Stage 6 and 7 validations helps advance healthcare quality and accessibility.