Data and Information
Paul Wilder, executive director at CommonWell Health Alliance, says voluminous amounts of data need to be replaced by discrete data that allows for better workflows that meet the needs of clinicians and patients.
David Miles, CIO of Oklahoma Heart Hospital, discusses how the all-digital healthcare system changed from a Cerner EHR to Epic - and the importance of peer assistance, resource availability and defined responsibilities during the process.
Cybersecurity experts are implementing measures to prevent localized attacks from spreading into hospital networks, where they can affect millions of medical records, says Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Montreal.
A new cybersecurity mandate in New York requires hospitals to implement incident reporting within 72 hours and have a chief information security officer, says George Pappas, healthcare cybersecurity expert and CEO of Intraprise Health.
Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, says it is necessary to slow down AI implementation due to a lack of transparency, AI not being trained on real-patient data and the potential implications of synthetic data use.
They will collaborate on identifying novel therapeutic drug candidates for lung cancer.
Cybersecurity is linked to health equity and vice versa, says HIMSS senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy. Cybersecurity must extend beyond the clinical setting as data access to patient information is necessary.
Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa, director of innovation at UC Davis Health, highlights how artificial intelligence can help unearth social determinants of health and how AI can advance health equity.
The Society urges collaboration between clinicians and technologists, and healthcare organizations to use the tech to assist the clinical workforce, not replace it.
Third-party risk management was the No. 1 weak link reported in organizations' cyberdefense strategies, says Jill Brewer, market insights lead at HIMSS. The No. 1 technology to use is AI-powered threat-detection and analytics.