HIMSS25

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.

Smart TVs are giving patients the ability to control their environment. 

Houston Methodist Hospital is using text messaging, voice technology and generative AI predictive analytics to drive patient-centered care.    

Michael McGillion, PROTECT LAB director and assistant professor at the School of Nursing at Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, joined MobiHealthNews to discuss his HIMSS25 talk on postoperative care management at home.

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.

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.

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.  

The cost burden is lowered when rural hospitals share their EHR because the host can bear the cost of things such as  infrastructure, security and staffing, says David Winn, vice president for Parkview Community Connect at Parkview Health.

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.