Digital Health

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.

Primary care improves outcomes and reduces costs, says Dan Mendelson, CEO of Morgan Health, JPMorganChase's healthcare arm.

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.

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

Work that used to be done by 200 people can now be done by 20 as AI becomes a digital workforce for such administrative tasks as claims appeal letters, says Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare.

Training staff to take advantage of AI and other technologies that will help supplement the workforce is important, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Helping patients and health systems understand how to use technology delivers health benefits for everyone, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director of health informatics at Trinity Health and a 2025 Changemaker Award recipient.

Scan guidance knows what it's seeing and guides the user using step-by-step instructions for cardiac assessment, says Vaishali Kamat, GE HealthCare's general manager of new ventures for ultrasound digital solutions.

Dr. Maheshwara Rao Appannan, digital health division director at Malaysia's Ministry of Health and a HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, has been given the task to use digital health maturity to transform the public health system and to better serve its population.