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Executive editors from MobiHealthNews, Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance News discuss hot topics from the HIMSS25 preconference forums, including how AI and other smart technologies are actively being deployed in clinical and operational settings.

Healthcare leaders and clinical informaticists can help decide which digital tools are most useful and accessible for patients without being overwhelming, says Whende Carroll, clinical informatics advisor at HIMSS.

AI tools helped find non-opioid pain medications that can also put patients under and predict strokes in children who have undergone brain surgery, says Dr. Zafar Chaudry, chief AI officer at Seattle Children's.

Amit Khanna, SVP and GM of Salesforce, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the company's new offering, Agentforce for Health, and its partnership with Athenahealth.

Also, a new online platform providing rural doctors support and resources on allergies went live.  

Matt Bishop of Open City Labs and Evelyn Gallego of EMI Advisors, cohosts of the HIMSS25 Health Equity Preconference Forum, preview the day's agenda and share details regarding the panels they will each moderate during the day.

The partners will leverage real-world evidence and AI, including the ChatRWD platform, to assist with clinical decision-making and medication formulary protocols.

Before the technology piece, focus must be on how to train people on the up-and-coming AI tools and providing a policy that governs those tools and protecting data, says Dr. Zafar Chaudry, chief AI officer at Seattle Children's.

At HIMSS25 Health Equity Preconference Forum, Dr. Manijeh Berenji, assistant clinical professor of environmental and occupational health at UC Irvine School of Medicine, will explore how AI can lessen health disparities due to climate change.

Despite reluctance in the past couple of years, clinician comfort with using AI tools is growing, says Etiometry President and CEO Shane Cooke, citing results of a recent AMA survey.