HIMSS TV

Rajiv Kolagani, vice president and chief data and AI officer at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, said AI holds tremendous promise when it comes to administrative processes.  

HIMSS digital health strategist Philip Bradley said INFRAM stages six and seven have advanced expectations for healthcare organizations, and most have yet to achieve the designation.  

Innovaccer cofounder and CEO Abhinav Shashank said modern IT systems would benefit from a single layer of data that payers and providers can connect to in order to support population health.

Sandra Johnson, senior vice president of client services at CliniComp, said artificial intelligence is being used to boost administrative functions and make billing faster and easier.

Rebecca Woods, Marissa Maldonado and Roz Cordini spoke at HIMSS25 about the importance of women self-promoting and building their personal brands in order to advance in the health IT space.  

The HIMSS Immunization Integration Program has the ultimate goal to improve vaccine coverage, says Office Practicum's Chris Gibson and Dr. Rich Szabo.

Epic has built an API to automatically connect the VA database with non-VA hospitals, work that was previously done manually, says Matthew McCay, MultiCare Health System's veteran advocacy manager, and Epic's Brett Barker.  

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, says timely, data-driven insights are needed to improve public health, and partnering with innovators to develop new tools can help advance these efforts.  

Each year, about 1.8 million veterans miss appointments due to lack of transportation access, an issue the Veterans Health Administration–Uber Health Connect (VUHC) Initiative is addressing, says Zach Clark, global head of Uber Health.  

Julie Luengas, chief nursing informatics officer at Stony Brook Medicine Information Technology, says a group of nurses at a HIMSS25 session announced a free toolkit that can help ensure health systems are using AI responsibly.