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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.
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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.
The steep cuts are largely attributable to new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who took the agency's top post in February.
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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.
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The organization brings a power to people's voices and development and introduces them to dialog they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to, says Changemaker Award recipient Nelita Iuppa, Cleveland Clinic's executive director of informatics.
The overhaul consolidates 28 divisions of the agency to 15, including a new Administration for a Healthy America.
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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.
Roughly 477,000 jobs could be lost in healthcare, including in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, pharmacies and nursing homes.