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As Europe builds solid frameworks for reimbursing digital therapeutics, the next challenge lies in clinician training, patient engagement, and embedding DTx into everyday care, says Louisa Stüwe from the French Ministry of Health.
Olga Kagan, Food Allergy Nursing Association (FANA) president & CEO and 2025 Changemaker Award recipient, says she launched FANA to educate nurses about the emerging health concern so they can deliver adequate care and better advocate for patients.
After studying and working in the U.S., Dr. Ajlan Al Zaki of Burjeel Hospital says he returned to the UAE with a mission: manufacturing CAR T-cell therapies locally to make them more affordable for cancer patients.
According to Julie Frey, vice president of product at Wolters Kluwer, ambient AI tools are helping to restore doctors' human connections with patients and reducing their after-hours documentation burden.
Piedmont Healthcare's population health pharmacy program manager, Melissa Robinson, discusses a predictive analytics tool that helps the health system identify and engage patients at risk for medication non-adherence.
PointClickCare's Brian Drozdowicz says that health systems, historically wary of making patient data available to payers, have gradually overcome that hesitation due to the positive impact data sharing has had on patient care and outcomes.
Sharing automated post-operative videos enables physicians to enhance patient engagement, but artificial intelligence insights generated may better surgical craft, say Transform Health Partners' Dr. Peter Billing and Medtronic's George Murgatroyd.
Oracle Health's Romel Khalife says the company's new EHR incorporates AI to simplify documentation, guide care for clinicians and make it easier for patients to schedule appointments and understand lab results.
Studying data from a clinic serving high-risk Medicaid patients helped Davies Awardee Dr. Robert Jarve and his team from Corewell Health understand what's driving most of the clinic's ED utilization.
Dr. R. Ryan Sadeghian, pediatrician and The University of Toledo CMIO, says the university is building and piloting AI models to assist in clinical decision support and to accurately answer patients' and clinicians' questions.
Banner Health's Amy Adashek-Pinn discusses the health system's "Text the CEO" program, which enables patients and visitors to contact executives directly with praise, complaints or other comments regarding their experiences.
Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services, says Israel has maintained longitudinal electronic health records for patients since the 1990s, enabling clinicians to leverage AI for predictive, proactive care.