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Josh Wilda, University of Iowa Health Care's AVP for information systems and CIDO, says that healthcare organizations can maximize TEFCA access to streamline and improve data exchange costs.

Cambridge Health Alliance's Dr. Hannah Galvin, Health Equity Changemaker Award recipient, talks about her work in advancing standards that would allow patients to selectively share health data to protect sensitive information.

Farhana Alarakhiya of Aga Khan University talks about how she's turning her decades of data expertise towards creating data-driven insights that can solve population health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.

The federal program could be a short-term patch for struggling rural hospitals or the last chance to move rural healthcare onto a model that works at scale. Michael Dalton of non-profit virtual care provider Ovatient explains.

Hospitals can increase health literacy by having instructions in multiple languages and tailoring conversations at discharge, says Greg O'Neill, director, Patient and Family Health Education at ChristianaCare, who will be speaking at HIMSS26.

Rural IT experts will share cost effective strategies for handling limited resources, staffing and infrastructure needs and discuss regional collaboration at HIMSS26, says Jim Roeder, CIO and VP of IT for Lakewood Health in Staples, Minn.

Investments in workforce, integrated technologies will broaden and strengthen care in rural areas, says Anna Basevich, SVP at Arcadia.

With analytics and omnichannel strategies like hyper-personalized fotonovelas, providers are leapfrogging over social determinants of health barriers to earn trust, improve patient engagement and close care gaps, says Bob Farrell, CEO of mPulse.

Tom Gillette, CIO of non-profit Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, says artificial intelligence tools raise health equity and support more personalized care in South Florida and Dade County where 60% of the residents speak Spanish.

Surprisingly, researchers found no correlation between department closures and negative outcomes for patients driving greater distances, says Martin Gaynor, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University.

Follow-up appointments, transitional care when there’s the risk of readmission, benefit patients and can be done by telehealth, says Dr. Matthew Thompson, an ER physician and the CEO and cofounder of Telescope Health.

Real-world encounter data shows individuals enrolled in a MA plan are more likely to have a chronic condition than those who sign up for original Medicare, says Inovalon's VP of research science and advanced analytics, Christie Teigland.