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Having experienced the healthcare system both as a legislator and a cancer patient, Policy Influencer Changemaker Dianne Primavera, Colorado's lieutenant governor, works to make healthcare more accessible and affordable.

Founder Changemaker awardee Helen Hill, SEMHIE VP/CIO and founder of the HIMSS Michigan chapter, helped launch MiHIN (the Michigan health information exchange), chairs its interoperability task force and runs a small sub-HIE in the MiHIN system.

Giving patients visibility into procedure costs can reduce surprise billing and drive prices down through competition, according to HIMSS Policy Influencer Changemaker Leigh Burchell, VP for policy and public affairs at Altera Digital Health.

Stony Brook Medicine CNIO and Women in Health IT Changemaker Award recipient Julie Luengas, DNP, RN, says her involvement in HIMSS has led to mentorship, leadership roles and advancement in her nursing informatics career.

McLaren Health Care's Samantha Jacques, HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, explains how, as medical devices become more complex, the roles of clinical engineers and IT professionals in safeguarding these tools intersect.

Cambridge Health Alliance's Dr. Hannah Galvin, Health Equity Changemaker Award recipient, talks about her work in advancing standards that would allow patients to selectively share health data to protect sensitive information.

Changemaker Award honoree for veterans' health, Sepi Browning, says that after attending HIMSS events for years, she has built a trusted network of close friends that work together to solve shared challenges.

Women in Health IT Changemaker Award recipient Hiyam Nadel of Massachusetts General Hospital discusses how bringing clinicians to the digital tool design process can improve the tools' effectiveness and reduce staff burnout.

Susan Hull of the MITRE Center for Transforming Health talks about working with diverse communities over two decades of involvement with HIMSS to simplify clinical workflows and restore a focus on patient care.

In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Meong Hi Son, Samsung Medical Center CMIO, she explains that improvements to clinical workflows are more likely to come from clinicians who are confident with new tools than from top-down mandates.

In Part 1 of our interview with Samsung Medical Center CMIO Dr. Meong Hi Son, she says that HIMSS maturity models have helped the hospital fill its technology gaps, but that an engaged workforce educated in digital tools keeps it innovating.

All publicly funded Italian hospitals have adopted HIMSS' EMRAM and INFRAM models to assess their digital maturity and demonstrate the benefits of digitization, says Elena Sini, HIMSS board chair and group CIO at Italy's GVM Care and Research.