"You really have to be thoughtful about safeguarding the data," says Andy Crowder, SVP and chief data and AI officer of Advocate Health. The provider has been using Agent Factory, Epic's EHR-integrated artificial intelligence development tool.

Dr. Seyoung Jung, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital CIO, says that going through the HIMSS AMAM validation process helped hospital leaders understand how best to implement AI and analytics tools.

AI and digital tools can process the massive amount of unstructured data healthcare organizations generate so it can flow freely through a system, says Shawn Freligh, SVP and GM at Upland Software.

Aashima Gupta, global director for healthcare at Google Cloud, discusses why successful AI transformation in healthcare depends on more than deploying new technology.

Klaus Larsen, deputy director at Digital Health Denmark, outlines the organisation’s role within Denmark’s wider healthcare ecosystem and ongoing reform efforts.

Continued funding from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program requires integrated data across providers. Making it easy for them to connect virtually to state systems is vital, says Dr. Tim Ferris, InterSystems' VP of healthcare practice.

Bond Consulting's Joel Bond says that outdated technology creates a burden for clinicians whose workflows are impeded, as well as for patients who must provide medical history information multiple times.

The legislation will give greater insight into the cost of therapies, but it doesn't mean premiums or the price of drugs will go down, says Ryan Czado, chief pharmacy officer of RazorMetrics.