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Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust, and Andy Molnar, CEO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, highlight the partners' efforts to move digital therapeutics forward by ensuring validation and accreditation in healthcare.

In discussing the Quadruple Aim, Dr. Alan Forster, director of Innovation, Transformation and Clinical Performance at McGill University Health Centre, says data gives measurable insights on care gaps and allows the evaluation of goals.

Oscar Alleyne, MITRE's managing director of the public health division, discusses the value of public and private partnerships to advance public health innovations and what its FFRDCs do to help organizations plan for the next pandemic.

Asad Lilani, director of political strategy at the Access Challenge notes that while social media campaigns are effective to reach large urban audiences, radio remains a vital way to convey health information to many people in rural areas of Africa.

Videha Sharma, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, says expanding pharmacogenomics use could offer the opportunity to avoid harmful side effects and make medicines more effective from the start.

Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director of health informatics at Trinity Health, talks about how the health system reaches out to patients on their preferred platform to encourage them to make needed visits.

Combining clinical data and mathematical models can increase precision and expedite treatment plans. Thierry Marchal of Ansys and researcher María Angeles Pérez discuss its use in pediatric abdominal cancer and across specialties.

Kellee Stewart, actress, writer, producer and fertility advocate, discusses her fertility journey and subsequent association with evite and family building and fertility company Progeny to expand cognizance around fertility health.

Abigail Norville, deputy secretary general of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands, says her government is interested in how Europe and the U.S. are addressing their diverse populations' needs with healthcare legislation.

Gabriel Garcia-Lopez, Los Angeles LGBT Center health information systems director, says attending his first HIMSS Global Conference inspired him to bring a LGBTQ+ health equity perspective to HIMSS committees, leading to a Changemaker Award.

Heidi Wold, chief population health officer at Longevity Health Plan, discusses how collecting data helps post-acute care facilities understand patients’ needs to provide services that both improve outcomes and meet CMS' value-based care standards.

Dr. Ivor Horn, Google's chief health equity officer, discusses how the tech giant ensures health equity in its AI models, its new technology and tools available for digital health companies to assess equity performance in their AI offerings.