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HIMSS Media executive editors Jessica Hagen, Mike Miliard and Susan Morse discussed EMRAM Stage 7 adoption, implementing AI responsibly, workforce development, remote patient monitoring, telehealth, genomic data and precision medicine.

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.

Dr. Min-Che Tung, chief superintendent at Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, discusses the country's international medical transfer services for critical care patients and how the health system accomplished Stage 7 EMRAM validation.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.