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Healthcare needs its workforce to be skilled in AI, says Bob Dichter, founder and career coach at Phoenix Rising Career Services, who encourages IT professionals to use artificial intelligence tools to help solve their organizations' challenges.
With its Nursing Research and Innovation Council fostering the use of digital tools and the hospital training staff in employing artificial intelligence, it is improving tech adoption, says Debra Beauregard of Rady Children's Health.
A digital health literacy maturity model could aid in training and inspiring staff to adopt new tools and cybersecurity practices, says Tjasa Zajc, special advisor for HIMSS and moderator for the HIMSS25 Global Leaders Exchange panel.
Cherish Health's tool can help monitor patients who may not want to, or remember how to, enter their own data into a health app, says Sumit Nagpal, the company's CEO.
Global awardees reflected on their transformation journeys as HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf emphasized how achieving Stage 6 and 7 validations helps advance healthcare quality and accessibility.
Attendees and panelists discuss what they've learned from the health systems and innovators piloting and implementing leading-edge healthcare technologies at the recent forum.
Health systems need to engage patients, families and clinicians as partners when leveraging AI and other advanced technologies to achieve the best possible care outcomes, says HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer Anne Snowdon.
The hospital's central goal of improving patient engagement and care quality has helped it achieve Stage 7 on the AMAM maturity model and more. Jong-Soo Choi, CTO of the Korea health system and a HIMSS25 Changemaker, explains.
Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst, says mental health providers quickly adopted telehealth during the pandemic. Now he says he thinks AI agents can help understaffed offices with triage and prescription management.
Nursing leaders are embracing digital tools that streamline workflows and improve unique connections with patients, says Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, DNP, program director of nursing informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a HIMSS25 Changemaker Awardee.
