HIMSS25

HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient Olga Kagan is CEO and founder of the Food Allergy Nursing Association, a nonprofit organization, to educate nurses about the emerging health concern.  

AI can help but aligned incentives and the culture of organization are also important, says Dr. Anwar Jebran, medical director of population health informatics at Oak Street Health.  

Cybercriminals are using AI to hack into systems and are figuring out how to use AI to their advantage, says Etay Maor, chief security strategist at Cato Networks.  

Reducing document burden through ambient AI is a low-hanging fruit that excites clinicians but genAI for clinical decision support is building acceptance more slowly, according to Julie Frey, vice president of provider product at Wolters Kluwer.  

Phones are a gateway since most people have one, says Renee Broadbent, SoNE Health's chief information officer, who developed a digital enablement approach to improve access and keep patients out of the hospital.  

Questions abound over what applications should be allowed and the speed of change is outstripping policy, says Matt Murren, CEO of True North ITG.  

Larry Voyten, chair of the HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Task Force, works through public policy for change to move in the right direction on such issues as public health, interoperability and cybersecurity.  

The MOTHeRS Project - Maternal Outreach Through Telehealth for Rural Sites - has been successful in using telehealth for maternal outreach for high-risk pregnant women in rural areas, says Dr. Sy Saeed of the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program.

Dr. Guido Giunti, chief data officer at Dublin, Ireland's St James's Hospital is generating upscaling for healthcare professionals, creating continuing medical education for generative AI.  

Healthcare organizations need to invest not only in cyber defense but in preparing for resilience and recovery, says Eric Liederman, CEO of CyberSolutionsMD.