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Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, CEO of Soothien HealthTech Advisory and a gastroenterologist, answers that question – and also holds forth on the promise of agentic AI, the value of voice agents and the right balance of build-buy-blend.
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.
Catalonia is transforming its healthcare system, and Tino Martí, analysis and strategy officer at the region's Department of Health, discusses its AI-powered clinical support tool, the first initiative to be implemented.
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.
The health system is seeing provider satisfaction from an in-house digital assistant to help with such tasks as summarizing a document and its ambient voice technology has resulted in productivity gains, says CTO Mike Reagin.
As the European Health Data Space is being implemented, the Health Data Hub's Pauline Cohen says SHAIPED will help facilitate healthcare data access for medical device manufacturers.
Philipp von Gilsa, CEO of Kontakt.io, talks about how the company's new agentic AI platform creates 'digital twins' of hospital operations to track patients and equipment and provide data that can help optimize workflows.
AI reduces the cognitive burden of overseeing multiple chronic conditions and social determinants during 30-minute patient visits with chart summaries that hyper-personalize recommendations, says Lori Walker, Presbyterian Healthcare Services' CMIO.
As Denmark assumes the EU presidency in 2025, the University of Copenhagen's Martin Brynskov says the country intends to encourage cross-sector collaboration to ensure AI technology is implemented ethically.
Prashant Natarajan, chief AI officer at Velatura Public Benefit Corporation, says AI's dominant presence in HIMSS25 presentations and forums demonstrates that the technology is now poised to deliver real value for healthcare organizations.
Amid tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty, John Boullie, Exiger's VP and global head of healthcare, says the company's AI tool gives healthcare providers insight into where their supplies are coming from.
William Chan, cofounder and CEO of Iodine Software, details how artificial intelligence helps providers in two key areas: denials and revenue leakage.