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<p>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.</p> <p> </p>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient Emily Barey, Epic's chief nurse evangelist, takes a process improvement approach and says ‘yes’ as often as she can to see what those opportunities hold.</span></span></span></p>

The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver is set to expire this year unless Congress acts.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Enabled by AI, AvaSure has a virtual nursing platform that is helping to bring the joy back to nursing, says CEO Adam McMullin.</span></span></span></p>

Layoffs are affecting nonclinical, non-member-facing administrative staff through attrition, closing of open positions and reducing redundancies.

<p>Through connecting positive changes to new IT, clinicians will embrace technology optimization, says Rachelle Landry, VP of clinical transformation at BD. <br />  </p>

The American Hospital Association called the FTC ruling, "bad law, bad policy and a clear sign of an agency run amok."

<p>Technological innovation can be an asset rather than a burden if developers listen to their frontline people, says Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, president of the American Medical Association.<br />  </p>

Rule requires 80% of Medicaid Home and Community Based Services payments to directly compensate workers rather than "administrative overhead." 

CMS says it is developing a $75 million national nursing home staffing campaign to increase the number of nurses,