HIMSS25

The digital maturity models represent not just a technology checklist, but how that technology is applied toward care quality and access, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

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.

Jong-Soo Choi, CTO at South Korea's Samsung Medical Center and 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Awardee, says his health system achieved the HIMSS maturity model goal by focusing on improving care quality and patient engagement, even while dealing with challenges such as the cloud and data.

Artificial intelligence is picking up where behavioral health via telehealth left off during the COVID-19 pandemic in mitigating staffing shortages by handling administrative tasks, medication management and even doing triage to assess the patient, says Dr. Colin Banas, DrFirst's chief medical officer.

Ambient listening allows for a natural conversation with a patient and puts the right information into the medical record and without the burden of chart documentation, says Changemaker Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, program director of nursing informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

The organization brings a power to people's voices and development and introduces them to dialog they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to, says Changemaker Award recipient Nelita Iuppa, Cleveland Clinic's executive director of informatics.

Blue x Blue CEO and founder Julia Zarb says her company uses AI agents to identify information executives really need, then brings data into play so decision-makers can access it in a safe way and talk to their data and have their data talk back.

Joshua Wymer, with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, talks about the digital health indicator and the opportunity to advance interoperability in the state during the HIMSS25 Public Health Data Modernization Forum.

Moving public health forward means being more effective with resources and using technology, says 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient Josh Wymer of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, who was recently involved in a statewide data project.