Digital Health

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.

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.

Adam Chee, associate professor, National University of Singapore, discusses cybersecurity challenges facing healthcare organizations, including the inability to patch medical devices' vulnerabilities without their manufacturers' approval.

Sam Amory, managing director for the Middle East and Africa at Dedalus, discusses how the company's vendor-agnostic command center gives hospitals a holistic overview of their enterprise to help them realize efficiencies across departments.

Dr. Farukh Usmani of Intermountain Health discusses how the health system became the first organization to reach Stage 7 of the updated Infrastructure Adoption Model, which has led to improvements in cybersecurity, sustainability and care delivery.    

Medicomp CMO Dr. Jay Anders discusses his company's early adoption of AI to organize clinical data and its more recent tool that can teach large language models (LLMs) to create more accurate documentation.  

Arnab Sen, chief strategy officer at Omega Healthcare, speaks on navigating patient improvements in a ever-changing health landscape.  

Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS, discusses anticipated U.S. health IT advancements, including EHR modernization for the VA and the Indian Health Service, as well as ARPA-H's $2.5 billion healthcare technology initiative.

Dr. Priscilla Frase, Ozarks Healthcare CMIO and 2024 Changemaker Award recipient, talks about how the small rural health system has successfully incorporated behavioral health data into its EMR without sacrificing patient confidentiality.

Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, program director, nursing informatics, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses nurses' role as knowledge workers and how new technologies, including AI, should support nurses' decision-making and reduce bias to improve care access.