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The EMR-linked tool has been implemented across 16 departments.

The pandemic highlighted nurses' importance for care delivery, but Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's program director of nursing informatics, calls on leaders to do more to advocate for nurses and help them stay resilient.

The lack of a strong set of AI-specific regulation in the U.S. allows innovation to happen quickly, but that also requires companies to be transparent and for the industry to take responsibility for its own actions, says Mika Newton, CEO of xCures.  

At the HIMSS25 AI in Healthcare Forum, industry thought leaders gathered to discuss how AI will be transformative and disruptive for the future of healthcare.  

Elizabeth Regan, professor at the University of South Carolina and a 2025 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient, says hospitals that embrace technology to engage the entire healthcare system can truly transform care.  

Also, a new AI model potentially enhances endometrial cancer diagnosis by achieving near full accuracy in a latest study in Australia.

According to Scott Mattila, COO at Intraprise Health, healthcare leaders seeking to build a strong cybersecurity framework may want to incorporate AI-powered real-time scanning and evaluation.

Successful documentation improvements require collaboration and frontline nurses to be engaged in the decision-making process to drive change and meaningful improvement, says NYU Langone Health's Denise Dauterman and Deborah Jacques.

At HIMSS25, Tamer Baker, healthcare CTO for Zscaler, and Nate Couture, CISO for the University of Vermont Health Network, will discuss zero trust's strategy and how critical it is to facilitate breach recovery and prevention after an attack.  

Until we can simplify the digital ecosystem the cognitive burden on teams will continue to be a source of burnout, frustration and potential source of error, says Lisa Stump, Mount Sinai Health System Chief Digital Information Officer.