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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.

In the HIMSS Executive Connect program, UVA Health CTO Zeb Elliott learned to engage his teams more effectively to boost their output and get better results without overextending them.

According to HIMSS' Tom Leary and Luis Belen, CEO of NHIT, NHIT INSPIRED connects college students with HIMSS mentors and industry partners. The program has shown early success in helping students find industry jobs.

Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, stresses that education and guidance can help ensure that tribal clinic staff understand and use digital health resources and EHRs effectively.

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.

The value of HIMSS membership, explains Tammy Kwiatkoski, HIMSS' senior director for global communities, is not measured in online engagement metrics, but in the lessons and resources that members take back to their workplaces.

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.

Within health systems, AI agents can serve as assistants for clinicians and revenue cycle teams so they can focus on higher-value, purpose-driven work like patient care and decision-making, Google's Aashima Gupta explains.

Arbital Health CEO Brian Overstreet says that AI's ability to provide actionable answers from data within moments can help leaders improve performance and outcomes to solve some of healthcare's toughest value-based care challenges.

Changemaker Award recipient Dr. Deepti Pandita of UCI Health urges anyone working in healthcare to get involved with HIMSS and specifically recommends that clinicians use HIMSS' Physician Informatics Research Hub.