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The AI brokerage company, which launched in January with $60 million in funding, announced its acquisition of Medicare brokerage agency Avid Health earlier this month.
Dr. Matt Sakumoto, Nabla's chief clinical product officer, says he wants the next wave of AI tools to empower every member of a clinical team to collect patients' stories and follow them along their care journey.
Despite progress in using advanced analytics, Jill Seys, senior director for North America analytics at HIMSS, says that many healthcare organizations are still challenged with tailoring communications for patients.
AI can streamline workflows across health systems, but Greg O'Neill, ChristianaCare's director of patient education, says the technology misses its purpose if the information it provides to patients and families isn't useful.
According to Tom Leary, HIMSS Foundation executive director, the foundation assists with costs associated with earning digital healthcare certifications to remove barriers for students from underserved communities.
University of Iowa Health Care's Josh Wilda says that TEFCA may be useful not only for providers, but to unify fragmented patient portals and give patients a single access point to retrieve their health data across systems.
Rather than serving on advisory boards, experienced clinicians are needed to help develop wearables that align with real-world care delivery, according to Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer at the American College of Cardiology.
Brian Mazanec of HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response and Jeff Butler of HPH Preparedness Consultants discuss how the recently released RISC Toolkit 2.0 can strengthen healthcare cyber resilience.
Although HIMSS26 attendees want to learn about new digital tools, they say the real value in coming back to the conference every year is in making new friends, checking in with old friends and sharing ideas and challenges.
Colorado Lt. Governor and Policy Influencer Changemaker Award recipient Dianne Primavera says belonging to the Colorado HIMSS chapter has enabled her to work closely with other state healthcare and policy leaders.