As the use of AI tools in healthcare advances, Peter Shen, North America head of digital and automation at Siemens Healthineers, says medtech companies must train algorithms on data that reflects the patient populations they will serve.
Luis Belén, CEO of the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved and a 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, says focusing on why they do their work can help healthcare IT professionals serve patient populations more effectively.
As hospitals incorporate more smart devices, Bob Friday, Juniper Networks' chief AI officer, says the company's AI-powered IT operations (AIOps) tool can help enhance mobile and wireless experiences for patients and staff.
Kathy Bailey, principal data intelligence analyst at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, talks about how generative AI extracts important information from data that can help inform care or drive operational efficiencies.
HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient Dr. Tamara Sunbul, digital health transformation and innovation strategic advisor in Saudi Arabia, says clinicians can blend clinical and IT expertise to help patients realize their health potential.
Dr. Bronwyn Harris, chief transformation officer at CareEvolution, discusses how the company's asthma management tool creates a baseline of data and notifies patients of significant changes, helping them to better manage their condition.
Many healthcare and life sciences organizations struggle with centralizing and sharing data. CitiusTech's Rajat Shukla and UCB's Priya Devapriya discuss a platform that onboards multiple types of data assets to aid in generating insights.
Tjasa Zajc, special advisor for HIMSS and moderator for the HIMSS25 Global Leaders Exchange panel, says a digital health literacy maturity model would aid in training and inspiring staff to adopt new tools and cybersecurity practices.
According to Bob Dichter, founder and career coach at Phoenix Rising Career Services, healthcare needs a workforce skilled in AI. He encourages health IT professionals to use AI tools to solve their organizations' problems.
Debra Beauregard of Rady Children's Health discusses how the hospital trains nurses and physicians in the use of AI and engages its Nursing Research and Innovation Council to bring in new digital health tools.
Sumit Nagpal, Cherish Health CEO, says his company's tool can help monitor patients who may not want to, or remember how to, enter their own data into a health app.
Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, says health systems need to engage patients, families and clinicians as partners when leveraging AI and other advanced technologies to achieve the best possible care outcomes.
