HIMSS25

The main theme of a HIMSS25 panel was not around tech, but was about the culture of innovation making the difference, says Edward Marx, CEO of Marx Advisory who is part of the HIMSS CIO Connect program.

Digital infrastructure protects data and the center is there for the community during a time of fear, anxiety and uncertainty over funding freezes and sustainability, says Gabriel Garcia-Lopez of the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Today it's conversational AI and in five years Mercy's Tracy Breece expects technology to be a seamless part of the workflow so that nurses can use skills to empower the patient and family.

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One breakthrough that has helped is the ability of ambient AI to document what's happening in the room, says Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications.

The maturity model optimizes scheduling, reduces wait times, lessens administrative burden and looks at patient health indicators, says Sara Meinke and Asad Tariq of Baptist Health.

Twelve teams participated in the competition held by Cooper University Health Care - which has in its inner-city DNA an awareness of SDOH issues such as exposure to violence, access to healthy food and stable housing - to create care in communities, says Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Michael Kirchhoff.

Julie Johnson, a nurse at the University of Chicago, was recruited to translate clinical ideas into data, which is then delivered back in a way that medical staff know how to approach analyzing it.

The WiTT Group, which stands for "We're in This Together," offers an online registry to help cancer patients with the SDOH needs that delay treatment, says founder and cancer patient Rahul Mahadevan.

In 2021, the large medical center in Israel established within Sheba another hospital to provide medical care to patients in their homes using telemedicine, says Dr. Galia Barkai, director general of Sheba Beyond.