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Robert Coffey, clinical director of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Perkins Family Clinic, discusses his tribal healthcare background, his HIMSS board leadership and how he helped organize the first HIMSS Native American Symposium.

PointClickCare's Steve Holt discusses how hospitals can use Rural Health Transformation Program funds to adopt the necessary tools to coordinate care across settings, reduce readmissions and improve patient outcomes.

Fragmented systems hinder care in tribal regions, and Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, says that seamless data exchange is essential to closing care gaps and improving access to treatment.

Dr. Ami Bhatt, chief innovation officer at the American College of Cardiology, says wearables can spot subtle physiological changes to enable earlier intervention for patients with cardiometabolic disease.

In a conversation with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, Dr. Mehmet Oz talks about technological advances at CMS, including leveraging modern identity tools to help Medicare beneficiaries securely access and control their data across care settings.

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.

HIMSS events share a common backbone of education, networking and innovation, but each gathering tailors content to regional policy and topics concerning the host country's healthcare ecosystem, says Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO.

Dr. Thomas Keane, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT, describes his plans for the conference and talks about TEFCA, HTI-4, HTI-5, imaging data, behavioral health exchange and more.

As health systems around the world grapple with an array of pressing challenges, it's time to "skate where the puck is going to be." In Las Vegas from March 9-12, IT leaders can help point the way forward for AI-powered digital transformation.

Alex Aliper, Insilico Medicine's president, says that longevity progress is already being made, but that regulators need to classify aging as a disease and track its biomarkers to enable more therapeutic advances.

Dr. Scott Parazynski, founder and CEO of OnwardAir, says that innovations created to treat astronauts in the extreme environment of space have the potential to improve remote care and aging research on Earth.

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.