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Clinical and technology leaders from leading health systems compared notes and learned together at the HIMSS25 AI in Healthcare Forum.
Rita Sharma, chief product officer at Pager Health, says health plans that are transparent and offer access to care and member benefits have great Net Promoter Score results.
The biggest hurdles in healthcare are rooted in how it is provided and IT is fundamental to process improvement, says University of South Carolina professor and HIMSS25 Changemaker Elizabeth Regan.
Femtech is helping reduce medical gaslighting by generating data that translates women's experiences into measurable health insights, says Ida Tin, founder of think tank Femtech Assembly.
The HIMSS Emerging Healthcare Leaders Task Force offers guidance and HIMSS membership to high school and college students. Texas State University associate professor and HIMSS25 Changemaker awardee David Gibbs describes the program's value.
An award for teaching CAHIMS and CPHIMS certification (Healthcare Information and Management Systems) to low-income urban students at community colleges was given to Monae Haskins, senior application analyst at Atlantic Health System in New Jersey.
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.
Dr. Steven Lane, chief medical officer at Health Gorilla and a HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient, says that, even as progress has been made for interoperability over the past 10 years, broader data sharing through TEFCA is still in its early stages.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeks to develop new ways to provide healthcare for vets and their families, says HIMSS25 Changemaker Awardee Dylan Tête, director of business development for Red Duke Strategies, which works with the VA.
ZIMAM Cofounder and Chair Osama El Hassan discusses the digital workforce development nonprofit's evolution. It now spans Gulf Cooperation Council, Middle East and North Africa countries and beyond.