HIMSS25

The HIMSS Immunization Integration Program has the ultimate goal to improve vaccine coverage, says Office Practicum's Chris Gibson and Dr. Rich Szabo.

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, says timely, data-driven insights are needed to improve public health, and partnering with innovators to develop new tools can help advance these efforts.

Julie Luengas, chief nursing informatics officer at Stony Brook Medicine Information Technology, says a group of nurses at a HIMSS25 session announced a free toolkit that can help ensure health systems are using AI responsibly.

Work that used to be done by 200 people can now be done by 20 as AI becomes a digital workforce for such administrative tasks as claims appeal letters, says Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare.

Helping patients and health systems understand how to use technology delivers health benefits for everyone, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director of health informatics at Trinity Health and a 2025 Changemaker Award recipient.

Dr. Maheshwara Rao Appannan, digital health division director at Malaysia's Ministry of Health and a HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, has been given the task to use digital health maturity to transform the public health system and to better serve its population.

Perceptions differ between how providers want to get paid and how patients want to pay, says Ryne Natzke, chief revenue officer at TrustCommerce.

At the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, HIMSS Changemaker Awardee Krystal Schramm says she works with data everyday, striving to use technology to make improvements from local areas up the federal level.

Treatment includes taking out white cells in CAR-T cell therapy to reprogram them to kill certain cancers and using stem cell gene therapy to stop disease progression, says Boro Dropulić, executive director of Caring Cross.

Information from other participants allows for a better understanding of a zero-trust environment and all that she's learned can be passed on to her coworkers, says Habi Mojidi, chief information officer for medical readiness in the U.S. Army.