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Jonathan French, HIMSS' senior director of public policy, urges HIMSS members interested in public policy advocacy to join committees or workgroups related to their topic of interest.

Tom Leary, HIMSS senior vice president and head of government relations, says leaders from CMS, the VA and the Office of Civil Rights will discuss new frameworks, strategies and rule changes that will impact healthcare stakeholders.

Brian Mazanec, deputy assistant secretary at HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response and Jeff Butler, owner and consultant at HPH Preparedness Consultants, discuss RISC Toolkit 2.0, which helps with cyber resilience and much more.

Having experienced the healthcare system both as a legislator and a cancer patient, Policy Influencer Changemaker Dianne Primavera, Colorado's lieutenant governor, works to make healthcare more accessible and affordable.

Dr. Jonathan Nebeker, CMIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says the VA seeks to engage with health systems, vendors and others to develop interoperability solutions that can connect veterans to community-based benefits.

Kimberly Brandt, CMS COO, discusses the agency's Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare (CRUSH) fraud-fighting initiative and invites the public to submit ideas on how to improve its efforts.

Amy Gleason of U.S. DOGE Service and CMS says the CMS Health Technology Ecosystem will provide a single patient access point powered by modern identity systems. This will replace portal logins and enable seamless data sharing.

In a conversation with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, Dr. Mehmet Oz talks about technological advances at CMS, including leveraging modern identity tools to help Medicare beneficiaries securely access and control their data across care settings.

Dr. Thomas Keane, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT, describes his plans for the conference and talks about TEFCA, HTI-4, HTI-5, imaging data, behavioral health exchange and more.

The phase-out of the Medicare Inpatient-Only list drives value and efficiency, but hospitals lose out on volume and revenue, says Allison Oakes, chief research officer for Trilliant Health.

Dr. Mark Zhang, acting assistant under secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, discusses the VA Puget Sound Health Care System's X_Labs and 3D-printed bone grafts.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's validation requirements process for drug development is a good model for healthcare artificial intelligence governance, explains Michael Abrams, managing partner at Numerof & Associates.