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Fulvia Raffaelli of the European Commission's DG SANTE says successful establishment of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) will require active participation and feedback from policymakers, vendors, clinicians and EU citizens.

Many conversations at the Paris conference were about the European Health Data Space, the AI Act and ensuring equitable access to digital health tools for all countries, according to HIMSS' Tom Leary.

Rather than making cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, the government is simply rolling back funding to pre-pandemic norms, says Dr. Don Rucker, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, who led the ONC during the first Trump administration.

On May 6, the Indiana governor signed legislation requiring every not-for-profit hospital to have charges equal to, or less than the state average, says Hal Andrews, CEO of Trilliant Health.

Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veteran Affairs, gives tips on how to succeed in artificial intelligence to IT leaders at hospitals and health systems.

An API that flows Veterans Affairs' data enables doctors to identify more veterans, rectify medication lists and refer them for VA benefits and services, says Matthew McCay, MultiCare Health System's veteran advocacy manager, and Epic's Brett Barker.

Zach Clark, global head of Uber Health, discusses the ride-sharing company's Veterans Health Administration–Uber Health Connect (VUHC) Initiative to improve veterans' access to care via the Veterans Transportation Program.

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, says its mission is modernizing data that will improve communities' well-being by driving smarter, faster public health decisions.

As Europe builds solid frameworks for reimbursing digital therapeutics, the next challenge lies in clinician training, patient engagement, and embedding DTx into everyday care, says Louisa Stüwe from the French Ministry of Health.

Lawrence Voyten, chair of the HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Task Force, says advocacy is central to HIMSS' work, and that forums on healthcare topics and letter-writing campaigns to policymakers help educate and involve the public.

Jonathan French, HIMSS' senior director of public policy, discusses how the Trump administration has changed course from the Biden administration's AI roadmap and is seeking to develop a national AI framework.

The current HIPAA rule lays the groundwork for a new forward-looking approach as the stakes are ever higher, says Ferdinand Hamada, managing director of Healthcare, Pharma & Life Sciences (HPLS) sector at MorganFranklin Cyber.