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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.

The overhaul consolidates 28 divisions of the agency to 15, including a new Administration for a Healthy America.

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.

Roughly 477,000 jobs could be lost in healthcare, including in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, pharmacies and nursing homes.

Students may know they want to go into healthcare but often don't see health information as a possibility because they don't see these professionals on TV, says HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient and Texas State University associate professor David Gibbs.

Monae Haskins, senior application analyst, Atlantic Health System in New Jersey, won the award teaching low-income urban students at community colleges and says, "It's never too late to start a second career."

Dylan Tête, director of business development for Red Duke Strategies and HIMSS Changemaker award recipient, built from the ground up an international living neighborhood for those with traumatic brain injuries, worked with veterans in Ukraine and now has the VA as a primary client.

The nonprofit ZIMAM, the International Digital Health Workforce Development Collaborative, has expanded since it began as a small initiative in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and has a focus on AI, synthetic data and information exchange, says cofounder and chair Osama El Hassan.

Scott Mattila, Intraprise Health's COO, says artificial intelligence is being utilized by cybercriminals who are increasingly targeting healthcare institutions.