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Executives at the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit discuss what made them choose to participate and how they've benefited from networking opportunities and sessions on real-world AI adoption.

According to HIMSS digital strategist Jill Seys, involving leaders in AI tools' design and testing empowers them to encourage their teams to adopt the technology to increase efficiency.

AI can find the root cause of a disease and offer ways to cure it and it can also bring a significant lift to healthcare operations through a data layer, says Rosha Pokharel, CEO and founder of SolvDat.

As an analytics leader, one of the biggest challenges is training people on the literacy that they need to support AI and not just accepting the answers being given, says Kerri Webster, RN, VP and chief analytics officer at Children's Hospital Colorado.

C-suite, clinical and IT leaders attend the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit in Chicago to learn more about future-focused digital transformation.

The AI Leadership Strategy Summit held in Chicago focused on how leaders manage change, what's on the horizon and how they can start to plan for it, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Hospitals should start with data when going to payers to request a carve-out in contracts due to tariffs, says Ralph Keiser, CEO of ArcheHealth.

One of the pitfalls technologists run into is the security of patient data, says Ferrum Health CEO Pelu Tran.

There's been a gap in patients getting their records as interoperability efforts have focused on moving data across institutions, says HealthEx CEO Dr. Priyanka Agarwal.

As an ER physician, Dr. Matthew Thompson, the CEO and cofounder of Telescope Health, says he routinely sees uninsured or underinsured patients who do not need emergency care.