Mayo Clinic's Dr. Vitaly Herasevich, Chapter Leader Changemaker award recipient, says local chapters need clinicians and IT leaders who can speak and understand each other's "language" to advance digital transformation.

Changemaker Award honoree for veterans' health, Sepi Browning, says that after attending HIMSS events for years, she has built a trusted network of close friends that work together to solve shared challenges.

Susan Hull of the MITRE Center for Transforming Health talks about working with diverse communities over two decades of involvement with HIMSS to simplify clinical workflows and restore a focus on patient care.

Women in Health IT Changemaker Award recipient Hiyam Nadel of Massachusetts General Hospital discusses how bringing clinicians to the digital tool design process can improve the tools' effectiveness and reduce staff burnout.

In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Meong Hi Son, Samsung Medical Center CMIO, she explains that improvements to clinical workflows are more likely to come from clinicians who are confident with new tools than from top-down mandates.

Hyland CEO Jitesh Ghai discusses how the company's tools unify disparate content, documents, images and data into governed, AI-driven intelligence that enables agentic automation and reduces administrative burden.

In Part 1 of our interview with Samsung Medical Center CMIO Dr. Meong Hi Son, she says that HIMSS maturity models have helped the hospital fill its technology gaps, but that an engaged workforce educated in digital tools keeps it innovating.

Dr. Jonathan Nebeker, CMIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says the VA seeks to engage with health systems, vendors and others to develop interoperability solutions that can connect veterans to community-based benefits.