Artificial Intelligence

Build strong partnerships and cultivate diverse perspectives to solve complex challenges and integrate technology into workflows, says Mouneer Odeh, the new chief data and AI officer at Cedars-Sinai.

Information on injuries from the popular sport is embedded in the chart notes, making it ripe for genAI's ability to extract information from unstructured data, says Kathy Bailey, principal data intelligence analyst at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

For health IT professionals looking to grow their careers, accept AI as an opportunity and learn to use and adopt the technology, says Bob Dichter, founder and career coach at Phoenix Rising Career Services.

AI, innovation and having everyone onboard to the health system's strategic roadmap to avoid competing priorities are central to a smart hospital, says Debra Beauregard of Rady Children's Health.

The resulting training would be key to cybersecurity practices because the human factor is the most important, says Tjasa Zajc, special advisor for HIMSS and moderator for the HIMSS25 Global Leaders Exchange panel.

Chief AI officer, chief medical information officer and clinical AI implementation specialist are among the career titles that graduates can aspire to obtaining with a MD/MS in AI dual degree program, says Dr. Ronald Rodriguez, director of the program at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Dr. Ronald Rodriquez, who is the program director of the nation's first MD/MS dual degree in AI from The University of Texas at San Antonio, says students want to focus on AI but also want clinical degree.

Attendees reflect on learning the value and benefits of various pilot programs and speaker Roberta Levy Schwartz, EVP of Houston Methodist Hospital, talks about what's working for their new smart hospital.

AI will help determine who is achieving their health potential and who is not, helping to fulfill the HIMSS vision for every human everywhere to realize their full health potential, says Anne Snowdon, HIMSS' chief scientific research officer.

The organizations will form a joint task force to evaluate and accelerate potential AI projects and opportunities.