Dr Catia Pinto and Dr Tapani Piha of the HIMSS Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe (DHAGE) say this year's meeting tackled difficult topics like promoting digital literacy and successfully scaling healthcare AI.

Dr. Michael Zaroukian of the HIMSS Analytics North America Advisory Council talks about how the council shapes the models HIMSS uses to measure how health systems use digital tools to strengthen operations and improve patient care.

Dr. Chia-Ying Liu, head of Physician Hospitalist Inpatient Division at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, says the hospital has learned from HIMSS maturity model validation to define measurable goals first, then deploy tools to achieve them.

Michael Cohen and Chanie Suttner, Discovery Health actuaries, discuss their research, which demonstrated that very high and low temperatures drive spikes in doctor visits, emergency care and hospital utilization.

Anton Hasselgren, ecosystem lead at 28DIGITAL, discusses how the UNITE project is bringing together regions, hospitals, startups, public agencies and industry partners to enable borderless European digital health services.

A volunteer review team from the HIMSS Global Health Education Committee evaluates more than 500 proposals to determine the direction for each year's conference, says Paul Brian Contino, Healthcare Strategy Advisor CIO.

The biggest risks of healthcare artificial intelligence are not necessarily the known deficiencies of AI technology. "The real risk is automation complacency," says Ben Scharfe, EVP of AI at Altera Digital Health.

Florian Podewski of Germany's Federal Ministry of Health cautions that health systems must prepare now for risks posed by deepfake technology, unsecured medical devices and quantum computing.