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HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf and Clalit's Chief Innovation Officer Ran Balicer discuss the highlights of HIMSS23, including the AI buzz that echoed in the halls because of its promise to transform care.

Andrew Eye, cofounder and CEO of ClosedLoop.ai, discusses how AI can improve or increase health disparities, the value of explainable AI and the importance of open algorithms to ensure accuracy and fairness in data integrations.

Elena Sini, board of directors chair at HIMSS, alongside Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, announce HIMSS European conference will be held in Rome, Italy in May of next year and provide teasers regarding the venue in the Eternal City.

Sam Seering, product manager of Cheers by Epic, relays the benefits of the company's CRM platform, such as enabling providers to serve patients better by leveraging data points and health insights, and automating patient outreach.

Tami McMasters Gomez, director of Coding and Clinical Documentation Integrity Services at UC Davis Medical Center, sees automation and AI freeing clinicians from the burdens of coding and documentation.

Surescripts' focus is on lowering patient costs and improving both quality of care and patient safety, explains CMIO Dr. Andrew Mellin.

Melanie Rainer, Director of HHS' Office for Civil Rights, shares how OCR helps providers resume compliance by the August deadline under HIPAA rules when they deliver telehealth services.

Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, discusses the organization's announcement of establishing its international headquarters in Rotterdam and how it impacts HIMSS' chapters and partnerships working to advance digital transformation globally.

ChatGPT has a lot of potential to improve healthcare, but it lacks the human touch and comes with ethical and legal issues, explains R. Ryan Sadeghian, CMIO of Hunterdon Healthcare System.

The first product from the health system's department of care transformation and innovation can predict the load of a hospital within 72 hours and then match that load with a clinical team, says Dr. John Doulis.