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At a HIMSS23 talk, panelists discussed how technology may improve health equity if the right steps are taken during the development process.

Patients should be the focus, but developers need to consider the entire healthcare ecosystem too — including physicians and healthcare workers, said panelists at HIMSS23.

Integrating the cloud-based models into daily workflows will "increase productivity for many of our providers," says one CIO, "allowing them to focus on the clinical duties that truly require their attention."

Modernizing data means shifting it from an asset to a utility, to ensure its usable for patients, providers and payers, a HIMSS23 panel said.

Think people, process and then technology, says Donna Roach, CISO for University of Utah Health.

At HIMSS23, Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health, discusses the role of digital officers in healthcare.

In a preview of her HIMSS23 panel, Suchi Saria, founder and CEO of Bayesian Health, offers perspectives on building more dependable machine learning models and making them easier for clinicians to use.

Geisinger develops a data-driven care navigation workflow to ensure patients were referred to the right provider based on their complaint and level of acuity. Benjamin C. Gonzales, operations manager, virtual care, behavioral health, previews his session.

We speak with the vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement about the ways technology can contribute to safer provider organizations, and places it falls short.

Academia is working to decrease bias in AI and to guard against potential pitfalls of its use in patient care, says Ty Vachon, CEO and cofounder of Oatmeal Health in a preview of his HIMSS23 discussion.