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Amid funding freezes and anxiety among patients and staff, Gabriel Garcia-Lopez of the Los Angeles LGBT Center says the center remains a vital lifeline for its patients by maintaining a strong digital engagement infrastructure.

From documenting bedside prayers to helping a hard-of-hearing nurse connect with patients, AI tools are revealing the importance of nurses' and patients' emotional and spiritual bonds to healing, says Mercy's Tracy Breece.

According to Tony DiGiorgio, chief architect at Symplr, the company has carefully embedded AI into its operational platform to cut administrative redundancy and enable nurses to minimize the number of systems they use each day.

Nissan Elimelech, founder of Augmedics, shares how the company's augmented reality surgical technology projects an anatomically accurate 3D spine onto the patient, helping surgeons operate with their eyes on the body instead of a screen.  

Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications, says centralizing health system data provides nurses with a "bigger picture" of operations so they can uncover trends that can improve care delivery.

Anil Soni, CEO of the WHO Foundation, discusses a $3.6 million fundraising initiative, enhanced by a dollar-for-dollar match, to protect the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network, working to control and eliminate both diseases.

Sara Meinke and Asad Tariq of Baptist Health discuss how a predictive analytics tool has helped reduce patient wait times and enabled nurses to have uninterrupted lunch breaks, increasing patient and staff satisfaction.

Cooper University Health Care's Dr. Michael Kirchhoff says the health system's hackathon brings together coders, clinicians and other professionals to create and pitch grassroots programs that address social determinants of health.

The University of Chicago's Julie Johnson shares an example of a recent collaboration on an AMIA presentation to illustrate how patient data can help identify health disparities and suggest how to resolve them.

Through working with global leaders, educating its members and developing digital transformation tools for health systems, Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says HIMSS encourages the ethical and practical integration of AI in healthcare.