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The programs aim to equip health workers with competencies in health IT, digital transformation, and data-driven decision making.
Nurses with less than two years of experience increase their confidence in performing during electronic health record outages after escape room-style training, Michael Allen of Indiana University Health said at HIMSS25.
With the increasing shortage of medical professionals, care delivery and roles will need to evolve. With the aging population and increase in chronic diseases, nurses are asking for more responsibilities.
Lavonia Thomas, nursing informatics officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses how integrating frontline nurse feedback into digital transformation efforts is enhancing patient care.
Technology and business operations leaders from Medical University of South Carolina offered some useful tips and strategies on collaboration, continuous improvement and more at HIMSS25 on Wednesday.
At HIMSS25, Gen. Paul Nakasone, former director of the National Security Agency, said the unique challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence in healthcare mean, "we all must be willing to take a few microsteps."
HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf and Pierre Le Manh, president and CEO of PMI, sat down for a fireside chat at the HIMSS25 Executive Summit.
As healthcare information and technology leaders worldwide strive for system transformation and adapt to a fast-changing health ecosystem, they should take lessons learned at the conference back home and put them into action, said HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf.
At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, Dennis Chornenky of UC Davis Health looked to the near future of agentic AI – and forecast fast-moving leaps in the technology that require careful planning and governance strategies.
Now is the time to get involved with the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council's strategic plan to upgrade cybersecurity from critical to stable condition, says Chris Tyberg, HSCC executive committee chair.
