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Dr. Manijeh Berenji, associate clinical professor at UC Irvine School of Medicine and Wen School of Public Health, explains how health systems can address supply-chain emissions by reconsidering where they source medical supplies and food.

Emily Bancroft, CEO of Health Care Without Harm, discusses how hospitals can measure their environmental impact and rethink procurement, energy use, waste management and other operations to reduce emissions while lowering costs.

Dr. Chethan Sarabu, director of clinical innovation for the Health Tech Hub at Cornell Tech, discusses the environmental impact of data centers powering AI and why health systems should consider sustainability as they adopt the technology.

Dr. Matthew Meyer, sustainable healthcare expert from the University of Virginia, discusses the environmental impact of commonly used anesthetic gases and alternatives that can reduce healthcare emissions without impacting patient care.

Dr. Ernst Kuipers, member of the WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health, discusses healthcare’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions globally and how the sector can reduce its environmental impact.

Dr. Matthew Herrmann, an infectious disease specialist and the chief medical officer at Pacific Oaks Medical Group, discusses ViiV Healthcare's HIV awareness campaign and the barriers associated with HIV patients achieving viral suppression.

Lauri Billingsley and Mari Tietze of the University of Texas at Arlington discuss their work using AI-powered geomapping to identify areas in Texas without nearby maternal care services and pinpoint where high-risk mothers live.

Michael Cohen and Chanie Suttner, Discovery Health actuaries, discuss their research, which demonstrated that very high and low temperatures drive spikes in doctor visits, emergency care and hospital utilization.

Dr. Don Rucker, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, says Bulk FHIR is a breakthrough for population health since it enables health systems to access and analyze volumes of patient data.

Vikram Bhaskaran and Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna, Roon cofounders, discuss the importance of enabling connectivity between physicians globally following the WHO's declaration of Ebola as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

Holly Davis, Bingham Healthcare CNO, says that while funding and data gaps exist, mobile phones, telemedicine and satellite internet mean that care is not as inaccessible in rural areas as healthcare leaders may think.

Immunization data now moves seamlessly between EHRs, pharmacies and registries so clinicians can track what doses patients have received, says Eric Larson, senior health IT lead at the American Immunization Registry Association.