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"You really have to be thoughtful about safeguarding the data," says Andy Crowder, SVP and chief data and AI officer of Advocate Health. The provider has been using Agent Factory, Epic's EHR-integrated artificial intelligence development tool.

Continued funding from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program requires integrated data across providers. Making it easy for them to connect virtually to state systems is vital, says Dr. Tim Ferris, InterSystems' VP of healthcare practice.

The legislation will give greater insight into the cost of therapies, but it doesn't mean premiums or the price of drugs will go down, says Ryan Czado, chief pharmacy officer of RazorMetrics.

Dr. Alex Pastuszak, cofounder and CEO of Paterna Biosciences, discusses the company’s recent announcement that it grew human sperm in a lab and used it to create embryos with the goal of impacting the future of male fertility treatment.

Before jumping into interventions, the first step is quantifying the risk that's impacting the population and driving costs, says Saleem Tahir, COO of MedeAnalytics.

MedeAnalytics, Socially Determined and Mathematica collaborated to give a Southern health plan of 1 million members the data to save $25 million through SDOH interventions, says Saleem Tahir, COO of MedeAnalytics.

There are challenges experienced by providers during payer negotiations, and various tech capabilities needed to build the most effective and valuable payer negotiation tech stacks. Dilpreet Sahota, founder and CEO of Trek Health, explains.

TEMPO and ACCESS are two new models that signal a large change in how the federal government intends to govern cost, quality and accountability in Medicare. Bill Charnetski, government affairs pro at PointClickCare, offers a deep dive.

Mary Beth Seaman, president of the HIMSS Southern California Chapter, highlights the upcoming annual CXO Summit on May 12th at the Richard Nixon Library, featuring healthcare stakeholders discussing how policies are impacting care delivery.

But continuity, confidentiality and compliance aren't the only imperatives hospitals and health systems need to manage when IT systems are down and workflows are suddenly paper-based, says Rebecca Romine, health law shareholder at Polsinelli.

Marcus Perez, president of Altera Digital Health, discusses the highly concentrated electronic health records arena and explains how it might hurt innovation and patient outcomes over the next decade.

AI plays a role in patient engagement because it’s critical for clinical efficiency, but it doesn’t replace functions, says Matt Fisher, VP of operations at Curae.