Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says that hospitals and medical practices are turning to AI first to help with areas such as clinical documentation and supply chain management before considering applying it to care delivery.

Álvaro Alonso Zorita of Spain's National Health System says the country's collaborative approach to developing AI initiatives offers valuable lessons as Europe implements the European Health Data Space.

HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum attendees in Boston shared ideas on how to develop and scale AI across real-world clinical and operational settings while benefiting patients, clinicians and staff.

With ongoing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, Ian Shakil, chief strategy officer at Commure, discusses the potential role of ambient AI documentation in infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response.

With predictive risk scores and care management data, providers can proactively target "high and rising risk populations" and treat behavioral health with urgency, says Yagnesh Vadgama, VP of payor strategy and network development at CentralReach.

Dr. Nuria Ruiz Hombrebueno says Madrid's Regional Government has created a Ministry for Digitalization and a Directorate General for Digital Health to drive interoperability, AI, data and remote monitoring initiatives across the region.

Jay Anders, Medicomp CMO, cautions that clinicians are concerned about AI tools' hallucinations and inconsistent outputs, so more governance and stronger guardrails are needed to get their buy-in.

Dr Hannah Allen, chief medical officer at Heidi and GP, shares insights from real-world deployments where AI tools are helping reduce cognitive burden and administrative workload across healthcare settings.