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Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and Dr. Robert Louis, neurosurgeon, explain the effect virtual reality has had on patient experiences across multiple specialties and its ROI for Hoag Hospital.

Dr. Dustin Nowaskie, founder and president of OutCare Health, tells how their organization supports the LGBTQ+ healthcare journey by providing resources, support and education and conducting studies analyzing the community's care experience.

Gabriela Mustata Wilson, director of health and public health informatics at the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics and 2023 Changemaker Award recipient, talks about how patient and SDOH data can help improve community health.

Andrew Eye, cofounder and CEO of ClosedLoop.ai, addresses zero tolerance for "black box" algorithms, achieving fairness with patient-level explainable AI and establishing best ML practices to advise thoughtful healthcare policy decisions.

Jeffrey Schneider at DoD and Navin Natoewal at Philips explain how algorithms and consumer wearables that predicted 73% of service members COVID-19 cases up to 2.5 days prior to symptoms could be used in healthcare.

Parkland Health SVP and CIO Joe Longo and SVP, Associate CMO and CMIO Dr. Brett Moran discuss how their hospital system leverages digital tools to empower patients and staff and make healthcare more accessible.

David Novillo Ortiz of WHO-Europe discusses addressing workforce and health equity challenges across the region by driving e-health with four key strategies (tech guidance, enhancing capacity, knowledge exchange and by scaling up things that work).

Italy's provider CEOs, CIOs and the wider HIMSS Italian community will support HIMSS24 Europe in Rome 29-31 May 2024. HIMSS President & CEO Hal Wolf and Chair of the Board Directors Elena Sini discuss the details.

By leveraging data points and relevant health insights, practices can proactively engage their patients while new tools in Cheers by Epic can help them connect with new patients, said Sam Seering, the CRM's product manager.

Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services, says Israel is interested in the long-term outcomes of its patients, caring about maintaining their health, not by "heads in beds."

Scott Kirby, interoperability developer at Physician's Computer Company, says the HIMSS Immunization Integration Program's Testing and Recognition initiative provides the right requirements for any EHR wanting to implement an immunization workflow.

Dr. Monica Bharel, Advanced Clinical senior public health advisor and former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, discusses how public and private sectors can pool resources to improve health outcomes during times of crisis.