Health Equity (145)

Manish Kohli, founder and president of the Pul Alliance for Digital Health and Equity, talks about supporting the volunteer Colombian Civil Air Patrol as they grow from offering limited healthcare in remote areas to a sustained community presence.

The 2024 Medicare Advantage and Part D Final Rule pertaining to materials and content motivates payers to not only be compliant, but to go the extra mile, because it affects star ratings, says Ernie Crawford, president & CEO of Crawford Technologies.

Gabriela Mustata Wilson, health and public health informatics director at the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics and 2023 Changemaker Award winner, on her inspiration to form global and local data-driven public health partnerships.

Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS, talks about global policy issues top of mind at HIMSS24, including AI regulation, maternal policy and public health. He also discusses the need to push for improved access and equity of care.

Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, program director of nursing informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, says nurse informaticists should have a voice in selecting new technologies such as AI to ensure they address bias and capture accurate data.

Breez Health helps providers get their community benefit numbers up and bad debt down, says CEO Nick McLaughlin.

Gabriel Seidman, director of policy at Ellison Institute of Technology, discusses the paper he and his colleagues penned on the need for governments to develop and fund enterprise architecture to solve major health issues such as homelessness.

Building valuable artificial intelligence models requires gathering good quality data for every population and data validation, says Luis Ahumada, director of health data science and analytics at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.

Don Rucker, chief strategy officer for 1upHealth, says with HTI-1 finalized, EHR vendors are going to have to figure out electronic case reporting while providers will have to get social determinants of health into their workflows.

Anne Snowdon, chief research officer at HIMSS, discusses the promise of artificial intelligence in healthcare – and describes how the health systems she works with are using it to clinical and operational challenges.

Brian Esterly, CEO of TimeDoc Health, discusses key social determinants of health issues, the rise in comorbidities complicating the delivery of care, healthcare deserts, and how health IT can serve as a bridge to all of these patients.

Dr. Michael Howell, chief clinical officer at Google, discusses the evolution of the company's medically tuned LLM, how AI can improve health equity and recommendations for regulators constructing rules around AI use in healthcare.