Artificial Intelligence

The resulting training would be key to cybersecurity practices because the human factor is the most important, says Tjasa Zajc, special advisor for HIMSS and moderator for the HIMSS25 Global Leaders Exchange panel.

Chief AI officer, chief medical information officer and clinical AI implementation specialist are among the career titles that graduates can aspire to obtaining with a MD/MS in AI dual degree program, says Dr. Ronald Rodriguez, director of the program at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Dr. Ronald Rodriquez, who is the program director of the nation's first MD/MS dual degree in AI from The University of Texas at San Antonio, says students want to focus on AI but also want clinical degree.

Attendees reflect on learning the value and benefits of various pilot programs and speaker Roberta Levy Schwartz, EVP of Houston Methodist Hospital, talks about what's working for their new smart hospital.

AI will help determine who is achieving their health potential and who is not, helping to fulfill the HIMSS vision for every human everywhere to realize their full health potential, says Anne Snowdon, HIMSS' chief scientific research officer.

The organizations will form a joint task force to evaluate and accelerate potential AI projects and opportunities.

Artificial intelligence is picking up where behavioral health via telehealth left off during the COVID-19 pandemic in mitigating staffing shortages by handling administrative tasks, medication management and even doing triage to assess the patient, says Dr. Colin Banas, DrFirst's chief medical officer.

Ambient listening allows for a natural conversation with a patient and puts the right information into the medical record and without the burden of chart documentation, says Changemaker Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, program director of nursing informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

AI needs to be explainable as to its decision-making and healthcare organizations need to develop the framework for validation standards, says Mika Newton, CEO of xCures.

Blue x Blue CEO and founder Julia Zarb says her company uses AI agents to identify information executives really need, then brings data into play so decision-makers can access it in a safe way and talk to their data and have their data talk back.