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Dan Torrens, eHealth Technologies CEO, discusses where providers are in shepherding patient data exchange across the finish line and speeding up time to care. "People are stuck in the current way of doing things. The infrastructure is there."

Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, which serves about a third of Taiwan's population, is leveraging AI and automation technologies in its centralised hospital system, says Dr Chien-Tzung Chen, superintendent.

UC San Diego Health is getting more than that using generative AI under the guidance of its new Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh. The physician details this and other AI projects and offers tips to execs looking to be a Chief AI Officer.

They must answer for all things artificial intelligence in a health system – and have clinical and AI knowledge, which does not need to be evenly balanced, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.

From images of patients' digitized pathology, AI gets a view of cells of the tumor for recommended therapy and long- term prognoses, says Andre Esteva CEO of Artera.

Eric Smith, the chief digital officer at the Houston-based health system discusses how it's using artificial intelligence tools to streamline operations and improve clinical outcomes, and how an AI Governance Council keeps focus on the human.

Sunny Virmani, group product manager of health AI at Google, discusses the tech giant's AI model for diabetic retinopathy, AI's potential to transform the healthcare industry and patient access to care, and Google's plans for AI in 2025.

Konyang University Hospital in Daejeon, South Korea, is increasingly developing and adopting AI technologies to drive patient-centric care, shares CIO Dr Yongsuk Kim.

Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa, director of innovation at UC Davis Health and co-chair of the HIMSS SDOH Committee, says artificial intelligence is changing the equation for how social and digital determinant information is integrated into care.

The attacks haven't changed but the interconnectedness of hospitals with each other and third parties means when one is impacted, the entire health system can be affected, says Dr. Benoit Desjardins, a professor at the University of Montreal.

Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, says slowing down AI deployment in healthcare may be necessary for patient safety. He explains why for healthcare C-suite executives and tech leaders.

HIMSS found third-party risk management is the top weak link for IT leaders and executives, with most wanting AI powered threat detection, a solution usually not done inhouse, says Jill Brewer, market insights lead.