Bob Watson, Health Gorilla CEO, says that proving interoperability's financial benefits may encourage health systems to connect to TEFCA networks.
Marcus Perez, president of Altera Digital Health, discusses the highly concentrated electronic health records arena and explains how it might hurt innovation and patient outcomes over the next decade.
Innovaccer CEO Abhinav Shashank says the company's agentic AI cloud enables health systems to consolidate administrative workloads on a common infrastructure rather than purchase individual tools for each process.
Suki CEO Punit Soni and Puneet Maheshwari, Optum Real senior vice president, discuss how AI is helping their companies bridge the gap between payers and providers and make revenue cycle management more efficient.
Julia Zarb, Blue x Blue CEO and founder, says healthcare can't follow the same digitization practices as other industries due to its patient variables, strict care delivery policies and the need for human judgment.
Andrew Pearce, HIMSS VP of analytics, says HIMSS' Analytics Maturity Assessment Model redirects health systems' focus from implementing AI tools to improving the data foundation that supports those tools.
AI plays a role in patient engagement because it’s critical for clinical efficiency, but it doesn’t replace functions, says Matt Fisher, VP of operations at Curae.
Melissa Kotrys, CEO of health information exchange Contexture, says it shares clinical data with the Arizona and Colorado Medicaid agencies to help decide whether work requirements apply to Medicaid recipients.
Robert Coffey, clinical director of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Perkins Family Clinic, discusses his tribal healthcare background, his HIMSS board leadership and how he helped organize the first HIMSS Native American Symposium.
PointClickCare's Steve Holt discusses how hospitals can use Rural Health Transformation Program funds to adopt the necessary tools to coordinate care across settings, reduce readmissions and improve patient outcomes.
Mike Nelson, field CTO, digital trust at DigiCert, says health systems must plan their shift to quantum cryptography, since quantum computing will make current encryption algorithms obsolete.
