Digital Health
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Some leaders say AI will improve a massively inefficient, overpriced and difficult-to-access healthcare system, while others anticipate AI’s potential for earlier, more accurate diagnosis.
Challenges exist with digitizing the health system in Pakistan, says Muhammad Babar, the Ministry of Health's management information systems officer. He discusses his HIMSS25 talk that will relay how the ministry is overcoming those barriers.
Sunny Virmani, group product manager of health AI at Google, discusses expanding access to AI models for diabetic retinopathy in India and Thailand, AI’s potential to transform healthcare and Google’s plans for AI in healthcare in 2025.
Hiring a third party responsible for dropping a network inside a home that manages the network, devices and security, then leveraging a health systems' clinical expertise to deliver care, works, says Anahi Santiago, CISO at ChristianaCare.
Cybersecurity experts are implementing measures to prevent localized attacks from spreading into hospital networks, where they can affect millions of medical records, says Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Montreal.
Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, says it is necessary to slow down AI implementation due to a lack of transparency, AI not being trained on real-patient data and the potential implications of synthetic data use.
Adam Hutchinson, oVRcome founder and CEO, discusses reducing phobias using VR exposure therapy, how the company fills the gap in VR psychiatric care access for providers and patients, and its trial on combatting social anxiety with VR.
Steen Strand, CEO of Emteq Labs, discusses the company's launch of Sense, emotion-sensing eyewear that collects real-world data on a wearer's facial expressions and its potential use for healthcare data collection.
Christopher Ahn, biomedical engineer supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, says that for clinicians who use medical devices an AI chatbot could answer questions and offer support, which is more immediate than filing a service ticket.