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Patricia MacTaggart, program director and teaching instructor at George Washington University and 2024 Changemaker Award winner, discusses how Medicaid’s innovative use of telehealth as a care modality influenced Medicare and other payers.  

Punit Soni, Suki AI CEO and founder, discusses how his company's integration of its AI assistant with Amwell's Converge telehealth platform to generate clinical notes and coding has reduced doctors' workload by up to 75% and boosted job satisfaction.  

Dr. Brian Anderson, CEO, Coalition of Health AI (CHAI), shares the challenges of developing specifications and ethical standards for still-evolving AI technology, as well as how members ensure patient safety remains at the center of discussions.  

Michael Nusbaum, ambassador for MH Nusbaum & Associates, discusses how standards organizations are responding more quickly to the rapid post-pandemic pace of healthcare innovation, and how universal adoption of new standards enables interoperability.  

1upHealth CEO Joe Gagnon talks about how healthcare organizations can use data to meet the needs of new CMS prior authorization rules.  

Founder and president Manish Kohli discusses how the Pul Alliance for Digital Health and Equity assists nonprofits with workforce training and project management so they can better measure and demonstrate their impact on local communities.

Don Thompson, head of marketing at TeleVox, discusses how AI powers TeleVox products, including Iris, a virtual assistant that helps healthcare staff save time on the phone by answering patients' questions via their preferred communication platform.

Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera, talks about a study exposing how AI in smart medical devices could be vulnerable to cyberattack, as well as how microsegmentation and firewall controls can help prevent such attacks.

Matthew Ko, cofounder, president and COO of DeepScribe, describes how the company addressed clinicians' concerns by building a "customization studio" that allows editing of AI-generated visit notes to reflect clinicians' natural writing style.

Patty Hayward, Talkdesk GM of healthcare and life sciences, explains how the company uses AI to automate bill payment, medication refills and appointment scheduling to give patients quick responses and call center agents time to answer complex questions.