Digital Health

Patients have many reasons why they don't take their medications, says Melissa Robinson, who as Piedmont Healthcare's population health pharmacy program manager, prioritizes those who aren't adherent for outreach and prevention.

Combining machine learning with video technology, along with AI automation, can improve both outcomes and surgical insights, say Transform Health Partners' Dr. Peter Billing and Medtronic's George Murgatroyd.

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The proposed updates are more specific around required technical controls, challenging security leaders when it comes to implementation, says Garrett Weber, Akamai Technologies field CTO for enterprise security.

For health IT professionals looking to grow their careers, accept AI as an opportunity and learn to use and adopt the technology, says Bob Dichter, founder and career coach at Phoenix Rising Career Services.

AI, innovation and having everyone onboard to the health system's strategic roadmap to avoid competing priorities are central to a smart hospital, says Debra Beauregard of Rady Children's Health.

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.

Cherish Health's intelligent radar-based sensor platform detects emergencies so that seniors do not have to download an app, remember to wear things, or press a button, says CEO Sumit Nagpal.

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.

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.