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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.

Continued funding from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program requires integrated data across providers. Making it easy for them to connect virtually to state systems is vital, says Dr. Tim Ferris, InterSystems' VP of healthcare practice.

Before jumping into interventions, the first step is quantifying the risk that's impacting the population and driving costs, says Saleem Tahir, COO of MedeAnalytics.

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.