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OhioHealth, a 16-hospital health system, changed from looking at individual capacity to leveraging the collective power of the entire network, says Scott Estep, system vice president for nursing operations and capacity management at OhioHealth.

Issues and plans include cybersecurity, optimizing claims processing to reduce denials, and modernizing patient digital access and experience, says Michael Mainiero, chief digital and information officer at Catholic Health Long Island.

HIMSS25 panel and book features successful women in IT who have faced barriers such as imposter syndrome and work-life balance challenges, says Jeffery Daigrepont, SVP of Coker Group.

The aim of Children's National Hospital is for artificial intelligence to enhance the ability to get to decisions faster for patient diagnoses and personalized treatment plans, as well as using AI to create efficiencies, says Alda Mizaku, chief data and AI officer.

The hospital was looking for someone to lead data, analytics and AI capabilities and to combine that with operations, says Alda Mizaku, chief data and AI officer.

There's variability in the sector depending on financial resources and post-acute settings were not funded under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, says Robert Latz, CIO, Trinity Rehabilitation Services.

The scribe needs specialty support to tackle the "edge" cases such as the complex care provided in the ER. It also needs to be coding-aware for the financial health of the hospital, says Dr. William Morris, Ambience Healthcare CMO.

Threat actors could be looking at women's health data as valuable due to its sensitivity in certain states, says Deepak Prakash, CTO and cofounder of Sonio, a cloud-based OB-GYN reporting software.

Inova Health System recently attained the Joint Commission's Responsible Use of Health Data certification after taking part in a pilot for ensuring structure, governance, reliability and accountability around managing data for non-patient encounter events, says Matt Kull, Inova's chief information and digital strategy officer.

Health systems need to know the ROI before they purchase technology, as CIOs and CFOs are looking at costs at a new level, says David Kirshner, managing partner at LogicSource and former CFO of Boston Children's Hospital.