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Bob Fine, executive director and founder of the International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association (IVRHA), discusses the 7th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium, its evolution, and recent exhibitors and speakers.

According to Howard Rubin, CIO of Evara Health, an FQHC, telehealth has helped an underserved population overcome the challenges of finding care.

Long a security resource, the Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook has gotten some updates. Margie Zuk and Penny Chase of MITRE preview their HIMSS23 session about them.

Dr. Shelly Nash, senior vice president and global chief medical information officer at Fresenius Medical Care, discusses the HIMSS23 panel she'll lead on training end-stage kidney disease patients to perform home dialysis using technology.

Russ Hinz of Advocate Health, Stephanie Chia of University of Chicago Medicine and Susan Tolin from Chartis preview their HIMSS23 presentation on the South Side Healthy Community Organization.

Randy Bush, principal at Deloitte Consulting, and Joe Drygas, VP of healthcare for AT&T Business, preview their HIMSS23 presentation explaining 5G's increasing centrality for healthcare and connectivity.

Automation has assisted patients using digital tools and helped with clinician workflows, according to Tracy Chu of Scripps Health, who previews her HIMSS23 presentation, "Automation Improves Digital Education App Performance."

UCLA Health System nurse informaticists Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa highlight their HIMSS23 presentation covering the ways algorithms incorporate patient chart data into measuring the nursing workload.

Natural language processing, a type of AI, reviews a massive number of healthcare documents to help two U.S. military health IT experts do their work more efficiently.

Dr. Vin Gupta, Amazon Pharmacy CMO and NBC Medical Analyst, and a keynote speaker at HIMSS23, highlights the need to carry on with the positive disruption demanded by the pandemic.