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Christopher Kunney won a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award as advocacy chair for the HIMSS Georgia chapter and much more, including being involved in the HIMSS Health Equity Policy Task Force, the YMCA and Carry Meds that supplies drugs and supplies to West Africa.  

Remote monitoring, data capture and delivery of care services inside the home allows for site-agnostic care, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer at Biofourmis.  

Qualified health information networks allow providers to find all of the records in every location where a patient has been, across his or her lifetime, says Dr. John Blair, CEO, MedAllies, whose company was recently named a QHIN designee.

The frameworks came out about the same time HIMSS released its annual healthcare cybersecurity survey, which this year shows how healthcare organizations are using AI, says Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.  

Kathleen McGrow acts as the workflow bridge from bedside to information technology, says chief nursing information officer at Microsoft, who also co-chairs a HIMSS innovation nursing advisory group.  

An AI strategy, telehealth and EHR touchless charting that allows physicians to focus on care, helps in treating patients in rural areas, says Khue Tran, chief strategy officer at Azalea Health.  

Speedy health IT adoption means bridging the gap between education and practice to prepare the nursing workforce to provide care, says Olga Kagan, associate adjunct professor and consortial faculty at CUNY School of Professional Studies and HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.

Dr. Eve Cunningham, group VP and chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence, and 2024 Changemaker, speaks about the advances made in virtual care and how the right clinical sponsors can help clinicians be more engaged in alternative care modalities.  

Addressing a risk in isolation that's actually part of an ecosystem raises the likelihood of a threat elsewhere, says Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO of CyberSolutionsMD.  

From clinical engineering at UConn to cybersecurity and tech innovator, Christopher Falkner, a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient and Sodexo's senior director of digital strategy and cybersecurity, talks about his career path and the importance of protecting medical devices.