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Healthcare security incidents in 2024 highlighted third-party vendor risk and the need to prepare business continuity plans and tabletop exercises in case of attack, says Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.
Garrett Weber, Akamai Technologies field CTO for enterprise security, explains how the new HIPAA security rule requires healthcare organizations to use specific technical controls, but it can also help to better position third-party risk 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.
Mika Newton, CEO of xCures, sees artificial intelligence the only path forward to delivering quality care, as the U.S. doesn't have enough hospitals, doctors or nurses.
Digital transformation requires a clear roadmap to ensure success. HIMSS maturity models provide a structured framework that helps healthcare orgs with systematic implementation, says Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs CIO Raed AlHazme.
Clinical and technology leaders from leading health systems compared notes and learned together at the HIMSS25 AI in Healthcare Forum.
The biggest hurdles in healthcare are rooted in how it is provided and IT is fundamental to process improvement, says University of South Carolina professor and HIMSS25 Changemaker Elizabeth Regan.
As aging infrastructure, staffing shortages and rising expectations collide with transformative tech, healthcare leaders must anchor every strategic plan in tomorrow's possibilities rather than yesterday's models, says health futurist Zayna Khayat.
With nearly 25% of all cyberattacks against healthcare organizations, Intraprise Health Chief Operating Officer Scott Mattila warns that artificial intelligence is enabling more sophisticated phishing and smishing tactics.
At HIMSS25 Denise Dauterman, Epic Clinical Systems Lead and Deborah Jacques, informatics nurse specialist, will share how they engaged nurses in implementing EHR modules that reduced redundant and non-meaningful documentation at NYU Langone Health.
