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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.
When health systems upgrade their IT infrastructure, Dr. Guido Giunti, chief data officer at Dublin, Ireland's St James's Hospital, recommends they also train staff to use AI and other new technologies.
Eric Liederman, CEO of CyberSolutionsMD, says that since financial institutions have greatly increased their security measures, bad actors now see healthcare organizations as more vulnerable and lucrative targets.
Piedmont Healthcare's population health pharmacy program manager, Melissa Robinson, discusses a predictive analytics tool that helps the health system identify and engage patients at risk for medication non-adherence.
PointClickCare's Brian Drozdowicz says that health systems, historically wary of making patient data available to payers, have gradually overcome that hesitation due to the positive impact data sharing has had on patient care and outcomes.
Amid labor shortages, Scott Wilson, AVP of HHS enterprise care solutions at Teladoc Health, says virtual platforms can help health systems optimize staffing and manage costs through virtual nursing and hospital at home programs.
Michael Gross, Cleveland Clinic's manager of cybersecurity intelligence, says healthcare leaders can build stronger cyberdefense strategies by involving each department across their organizations.
Studying data from a clinic serving high-risk Medicaid patients helped Davies Awardee Dr. Robert Jarve and his team from Corewell Health understand what's driving most of the clinic's ED utilization.
Lateefah Agunbiade, executive director of enterprise systems and IT at Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center and recent CIO Connect graduate, says the program provides education and support to new CIOs seeking to drive change in their organizations.
Dr. R. Ryan Sadeghian, pediatrician and The University of Toledo CMIO, says the university is building and piloting AI models to assist in clinical decision support and to accurately answer patients' and clinicians' questions.
Michele Krajewski, HIMSS Global Health Conference Education Committee chair, says the committee consults attendee feedback and tracks emerging trends to plan its yearly global conference sessions.
Banner Health's Amy Adashek-Pinn discusses the health system's "Text the CEO" program, which enables patients and visitors to contact executives directly with praise, complaints or other comments regarding their experiences.