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Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, says health systems need to engage patients, families and clinicians as partners when leveraging AI and other advanced technologies to achieve the best possible care outcomes.

Mental health providers quickly adopted telehealth during the pandemic. Now Dr. Colin Banas, DrFirst's chief medical officer, believes AI agents can assist these understaffed offices with triage and prescription management.

Attendees and panelists provide highlights of the HIMSS25 Smart Health Transformation Forum and what they learned from the health systems and innovators piloting and implementing healthcare technologies, such as virtual nursing.

The U.S. doesn’t have enough hospitals, doctors or nurses, which makes AI the only path forward to delivering quality care, says Mika Newton, CEO of xCures.

To relieve healthcare leaders' burnout and help them use their data effectively, Julia Zarb, CEO and founder of Blue x Blue and a HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, uses AI agents to identify and access the data they need to make informed choices.

At the HIMSS25 AI in Healthcare Forum, everyone had something new to understand about a big, complex, fast-moving and transformative topic.

Andreas Forsland, CEO and cofounder of Cognixion, discusses the company's non-invasive brain-computer interface, AI and augmented reality technology and how it is being used to help ALS and traumatic brain injury patients communicate.

Kent Dicks, CEO of Life365, believes that AI-powered remote monitoring using low-cost, disposable sensors can help VA clinicians spot potential issues and intervene to encourage patients to stay compliant.

Scott Mattila, COO at Intraprise Health, says 23% of all cyberattacks are against healthcare organizations and warns that AI enables more sophisticated phishing and smishing tactics.

David Lareau, Medicomp Systems' CEO and president, explains how the company's LLM-adjacent software cleans, organizes and presents diagnostically connected data for clinicians at the point of care.

Tom Leary, HIMSS SVP and head of government relations, discusses his department's plans for working within the U.S. and with other countries on AI, cybersecurity, digital health transformation and workforce development.

Before deploying AI to reduce burnout and administrative burden, Angie Cox, Nautilus Solutions CEO and founder, recommends including nurses and doctors in the process so their concerns can be addressed.