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Lauri Billingsley and Mari Tietze of the University of Texas at Arlington discuss their work using AI-powered geomapping to identify areas in Texas without nearby maternal care services and pinpoint where high-risk mothers live.

Oren Nissim, CEO of Brook Health, discusses the program, which starts on July 5, and what broadening providers' access to certain tech-enabled care options could mean for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions.

Peiling Yap, chief scientist at HealthAI, says that many responsible AI projects never move beyond pilot stages because weak governance and a lack of clear regulatory guardrails block safe scaling and widespread adoption.

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.

Fragmented identifiers in healthcare and a federated governance model can inhibit trusted access, explains Patrick Lane, president and COO of Health Gorilla.

Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, Healthcare Denmark chair, says that Nordic countries' small, connected societies allow them to build strong healthcare partnerships that offer lessons for other nations pursuing large-scale digitisation.

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, says the agency has set strategic priorities to unify, aggregate and steward data and to leverage AI responsibly for more timely reporting.

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.

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.

PointClickCare's Steve Holt discusses how hospitals can use Rural Health Transformation Program funds to adopt the necessary tools to coordinate care across settings, reduce readmissions and improve patient outcomes.

By 2027, health systems must meet CMS regulations for issues including prior authorization and data access. eHealth Exchange's FHIR consultant Scott Rossignol says that complications including EHR readiness are delaying progress.

Lawrence Voyten, chair of the HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Task Force, says the task force educates chapter advocates on upcoming state and federal healthcare legislation and how it may impact vendors, patients and the industry.