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Moving public health forward means being more effective with resources and using technology, says 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient Josh Wymer of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, who was recently involved in a statewide data project.

"We're all gonna feel a little stupid sometimes if we wanna get this right," says forum co-emcee Brian Spisak.

Members are frustrated by not finding accurate information online, by being unable to get a live agent or by lack of preventative care options, says Rita Sharma, chief product officer at Pager Health.

Healthcare problems are not on the medical side, but in the healthcare delivery system, says HIMSS Changemaker award recipient Elizabeth Regan, a professor at the University of South Carolina who teaches informatics.

Students may know they want to go into healthcare but often don't see health information as a possibility because they don't see these professionals on TV, says HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient and Texas State University associate professor David Gibbs.

Monae Haskins, senior application analyst, Atlantic Health System in New Jersey, won the award teaching low-income urban students at community colleges and says, "It's never too late to start a second career."

Interoperability has come a long way, but information exchange between providers barely scratches the surface of what can be done and how data can be used more effectively, says 2025 Changemaker Award recipient Dr. Steven Lane, CMO at Health Gorilla and a physician who says he was the first to exchange patient data using the Carequality Interoperability Framework.

Dylan Tête, director of business development for Red Duke Strategies and HIMSS Changemaker award recipient, built from the ground up an international living neighborhood for those with traumatic brain injuries, worked with veterans in Ukraine and now has the VA as a primary client.

The nonprofit ZIMAM, the International Digital Health Workforce Development Collaborative, has expanded since it began as a small initiative in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and has a focus on AI, synthetic data and information exchange, says cofounder and chair Osama El Hassan.

Cognixion uses non-invasive sensors to monitor brain waves to create apps for those with traumatic brain injury, stroke or ALS, says CEO and cofounder Andreas Forsland.