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John Gaines, VP of marketing at Cohere Health, describes the challenges providers face in getting prior authorizations and how new CMS guidelines will speed up the process by mandating that it be done electronically.

Rather than managing things after they break, Cherish CEO Sumit Nagpal discusses migrating the healthcare economy to preventative care to assure health.

Gita Barry, president of immersive healthcare at Penumbra, discusses the uses of immersive VR technology for therapy in healthcare settings and at home, and its potential to engage patients and employees.

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare, talks about how virtual providers free up clinicians' time by handling "triple R" – routine, repeatable and rules-based – care visits that can occupy more than 50% of a physician's day.

Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, highlights announcements from the HIMSS23 cybersecurity forum aimed at helping healthcare practices improve protection as phishing becomes more sophisticated.

Aaron Miri, SVP and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health, discusses lessons his organization learned from HIMSS23 cybersecurity forum and how it's leveraging that info to keep patient data secure.

Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Permanente Medical Group, discusses how he's navigated and impacted privacy and security in his organization to ensure streamlined healthcare operations for patients and providers.

Lisa Stephenson, CNIO at Houston Methodist, talks about her work with the HIMSS nursing informatics committee and how informaticists help healthcare leaders focus on adopting technology that will reduce, not add to, clinicians' burdens.

Tim O'Connell, CEO and founder of Emtelligent, talks about Emtelligent's NLP software, which is specially designed to understand medical English, and how it can assist drug companies with finding clinical trial cohorts from patient records.

Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst, discusses how his company uses AI to automate tasks such as processing prescription refills, which prevents medication errors and reduces clinicians' administrative burden.