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Marcee Chmait of Providence Digital Innovation Group, Esther Kim of Mass General Brigham, and Kali Arduini Idhe of Northwestern Medicine highlight what attendees will learn from the HIMSS25 Smart Health Transformation Preconference Forum.

If finalized, the rule aims to improve the safety of patient data at healthcare institutions and addresses a national security topic by protecting data from bad actors who want to disrupt services, says Eric Avigdor, chief product officer of Votiro.

Emilio Goldenhersch, enterprise director at MKThink, discusses tracking the movement, air quality and architectural design of a space to examine its effects on health - and how to apply the tech in first responders' healthcare.

Van Steel, shareholder in LBMC's cybersecurity division, discusses his role at HIMSS Tennessee chapter - and why private healthcare data, including financial information, medications and other personal information, sells for a premium.  

Project management frameworks such as Kanban let teams see their tasks in a layout, which fosters transparency and understanding of their needs says Rachele Watts, Joel Bond and Evgeny Shekhtman of Providence Health's Agile Practice Office.

Ian Shakil, chief strategy officer at Commure, explores the role of AI in clinical documentation and note-taking, emphasizing the importance of keeping humans in the loop and expanding the technology's impact across healthcare.

CMS raised the payment for homecare by only a half a percent, and that does not compare to inflation, says Luke Rutledge, president of Homecare Homebase, who adds: "That does not equate to the costs that continue to rise for our customers."

Patients are interested in AI to try and garner more information about their care or their child's care. Tools like ChatGPT are being utilized more by patients, says Dr. Samuel Browd of UW and Seattle Children's and the CMO at Proprio.

AI models used to enhance cybersecurity include supervised, unsupervised machine learning and genAI that can take complex data and distill it down to something human-readable, says Etay Maor, Cato Networks' chief security strategist.

Because healthcare IT requires an enormous amount of late hours, a lot of travel and in-person meetings, work-life balance is a major challenge for women working in IT, says Jeffery Daigrepont, SVP of Coker Group.