Digital Health

Toni Laracuente, SVP and head of analytics for HIMSS, discusses the Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM), which weighs care-delivery environment functionalities to ensure systems get the highest value from digital health infrastructure.

Ali Youssef, cybersecurity director at Henry Ford Health, relays why it is difficult for health systems to defend themselves from malicious actors and how institutions should prepare now for an inevitable cybersecurity breach.

Todd Gottula, president and cofounder of Clarify Health Solutions, discusses the importance of calculating and providing data intelligence to healthcare stakeholders to encourage adoption of AI and large language model insights.

Osama El-Hassan of Dubai's Health Authority talks about Zimam and how the GCC region built a workforce by upskilling and promoting digital health implementation. The process helped with workforce retention and technological adoption.

Kevin Littlefield, principal of cybersecurity at MITRE, explains how home care may be susceptible to cybercriminals and how hospitals can ensure patient security as home-based care and RPM become more prevalent.

Erik Decker, Intermountain Health CISO and chair of the Health Sector Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the private sector and federal government task groups, and how the teams are learning to avoid malware attacks.

Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, tells where vulnerabilities exist with medical devices, what practices can do to protect patients and patient information and how AI can help with cybersecurity.

Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Louis discuss utilizing VR and AR to evaluate a patient’s anatomy in 3D and implementing the tech as a preoperative tool.

Tarra Kerr and Ashok Kurian of Texas Children's Hospital relay how their healthcare system became a Davies Award winner and the roles of technology and its simulation center in ensuring satisfactory results for patients and providers.

Raed Alhamze, IT executive director of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, relays how the hospital system achieved HIMSS digital maturity in multiple categories: EMRAM, EHR, analytics, infrastructure and outpatient EMRs.