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Through working with global leaders, educating its members and developing digital transformation tools for health systems, Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says HIMSS encourages the ethical and practical integration of AI in healthcare.

Paul Grand, CEO of MedTech Innovator, offers advice for startups on pitching to accelerators, the value of scaling alongside an accelerator and how the company helps companies grow within healthcare in collaboration with major partners.

The investment will accelerate Nexus IT’s U.S. expansion and support acquisitions of culturally aligned MSPs in healthcare and other regulated industries.

Molly Gibson, president of future science at Lila Sciences, describes the company's scientific superintelligence computer that analyzes various branches of science and creates hypotheses to help researchers find treatments or cure diseases.

When launching a healthcare AI project, Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, recommends consulting with technology users to understand the problems they encounter and are trying to solve.

Independent accreditation is essential to ensure that health technology and health organizations are compliant with HIPAA, NIST and other standards, says Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

Getting every image, anywhere, to anyone who has the right to the image, including physicians and patients through the personal health record, is a key goal, says Dr. David Kaelber, Cleveland MetroHealth's chief medical informatics officer.

While HIEs and TEFCA represent important interoperability advances, William Cavanaugh, Concord Technologies CEO, says health systems also need to access documents that contain important context for clinicians, rather than just data.

Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki, says AI is a fundamental technology that changes hospitals', physicians' and patients' healthcare experience, impacting every aspect, including care delivery, patient summarization and the revenue cycle.

Jackie Rice, VP and chief information officer at Frederick Health, says adding pharmacogenetic data to the health system's EHR enables alerts that advise clinicians on how a patient’s genes can affect drug response.