Dr Candan Kendir, health policy analyst at the OECD, says the latest Patient-Reported Indicator Survey (PaRIS) surprisingly revealed that countries' healthcare budgets are less important to outcomes than previously thought.

Many conversations at the Paris conference were about the European Health Data Space, the AI Act and ensuring equitable access to digital health tools for all countries, according to HIMSS' Tom Leary.

From basic data governance to advanced agentic models (and everything in-between), leaders from health organizations of all shapes and sizes explored artificial intelligence's challenges and immense opportunities in Brooklyn this past week.

Teja Batagelj of the Slovenia Ministry of Health shares how the country is working to unify its fragmented healthcare system with digital transformation, which will standardize care to drive interoperability across its 26 hospitals.

IHE Catalyst's Alexander Berler says the nonprofit is partnering with HIMSS to illustrate for regulators, vendors and clinicians how connecting systems improves patient care both domestically and during international travel.

KLAS Enterprises' Coray Tate discusses research findings that around 1 in 3 clinicians are experiencing burnout, as well as the correlation between clinicians' EHR experience and burnout levels.

Diana Ferro of Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital discusses the hospital’s participation in the CYLCOMED initiative, which has developed an AI cybersecurity toolbox to safeguard data collected from remote monitoring devices.

Despite rapid technological advances, poor governance and insufficient strategies are stalling global healthcare's digital transformation, says Dr Derya Şahin, OECD AI in Healthcare Expert Group member.