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As aging infrastructure, staffing shortages and rising expectations collide with transformative tech, healthcare leaders must anchor every strategic plan in tomorrow's possibilities rather than yesterday's models, says health futurist Zayna Khayat.

Sherene Schlegel, RN, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer for virtual care and digital health at the 51-hospital health system, offers a tour of its comprehensive telemedicine offering. She explains the program's evolution and highlights big results.

Robert Slepin, chief digital officer at SE Health and an emeritus CIO adviser at Epic, describes the key aspects of digital transformation that provider organizations need to understand, the primary technologies involved and how to best organize such a comprehensive effort.

Chris Whelchel, a consultant with expertise in helping health systems with these varied challenges, shares advice that CIOs and other IT leaders at provider organizations can put into place now to help achieve results.

With nearly 25% of all cyberattacks against healthcare organizations, Intraprise Health Chief Operating Officer Scott Mattila warns that artificial intelligence is enabling more sophisticated phishing and smishing tactics.  

Artificial intelligence agents coordinating tasks across healthcare workflows were the talk of HIMSS25. In the year ahead, AI is expected to progress cautiously beyond ambient listening to effect new automation in electronic health records.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the organization will be reintegrated into the UK Department of Health and Social Care within two years. The agency pledges to reinvest cost savings into frontline services.

Nurses with less than two years of experience increase their confidence in performing during electronic health record outages after escape room-style training, Michael Allen of Indiana University Health said at HIMSS25.

An Australian study also found that AI can help reduce readmissions.

Chad Dodd, vice president of product management at athenahealth, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss Ambient Notes and how the company's AI-enabled products have evolved.