Trinity Health's Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, who is a 2025 Changemaker Awardee, says his work to help clinicians, patients and staff embrace and understand digital tools contributes to advancing HIMSS' goal of improving global health outcomes.

Dr. Maheshwara Rao Appannan of Malaysia's Ministry of Health uses HIMSS benchmarks as guidance for advancing digital health maturity with the goals of increasing health equity and economic gains while improving patient outcomes.

Boro Dropulić, executive director of Caring Cross, explains how gene and cell therapies "reprogram" the patient's own cells to stop the progression of certain cancers and genetic conditions in some situations, with remission rates of up to 92%.

Ryne Natzke, TrustCommerce's chief revenue officer, says his company's recent report showed that, while debit cards remain popular and can be cheaper for health systems to accept, many patients would rather pay for treatment digitally.

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.