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oVRcome can treat the 80% of people who have an anxiety disorder who cannot access a physical location, through Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy on a smartphone, says founder and CEO Adam Hutchinson.

Patients suffer the health consequences of attacks that delay or disrupt care or result in ambulances being turned away, says Greg Garcia, executive director of the HSCC, Cybersecurity Working Group.  

This unsustainable business model and the financial burden are passed on to providers, says Everett Wilson, healthcare regulatory attorney at Polsinelli.  

When hit, all hospital functions are severely impaired, including clinical care delivery, which can result in patient deaths, says Eric Liederman, CEO of CybersolutionsMD and former national leader of privacy, security and IT infrastructure at Kaiser Permanente.  

Passwords don't need to be changed as often as every 90 days, but multifactor authentication is a must, says Jonathan Bauer, CIO Atlantic General Hospital Health System.  

Using AI to extract data is one of the more promising areas of cybersecurity, says Darren Lacey, CISO at Johns Hopkins.  

UC Davis Health has adopted technology in a partnership to prioritize stroke cases and share information across academic medical centers. This led to efficiencies and better patient outcomes, says chief AI advisor Dennis Chornenky.  

It's important for chief AI officers to have a strong sense of the regulatory environment and the skills to align AI investments to the company's business strategy, says Dennis Chornenky, UC Davis Health's AI chief.  

Winners will be those who get and act on clinical data before patients get sick - and that’s a huge IT lift, says Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC head and current chief strategy officer of 1upHealth.

As revenue cycles increasingly depend on patients to pay their healthcare bills, AI digital engagement increases the collection rate, says  Dugan Winkie, head of Commercial Strategy at Cedar.