Patient Engagement

Valerie Reich, vice president of healthcare strategy at Hero Digital, looks ahead to how those factors and patients understanding the predictive and personalization powers of health data will change healthcare this year.

Providing individuals with access to technology-based clinical engagement programs that integrate human health coaching, personalized content and data insights can reduce health risks, says Avid Health CEO Tom Allen and COO Laura Tan.

The newly launched platform integrates registration, test data sharing, pre-consultation, and remote treatments.

As chief digital information officer, Lisa Stump says she's working to integrate an array of new technologies to enable value creation and drive growth, all while executing on the technology imperatives of a five-year strategic plan.

A tour of a lab creating digital health tech to aid brain health – everything from robots to wearables and IOT devices to virtual reality and AI to adaptive robotic pets. Leading the tour: Casey Bennett, health informatics program chair at DePaul University.

More providers are finding artificial intelligence can reduce clinician burnout and lower recruiting costs. Meanwhile, tech vendors on the frontier of agentic AI innovation are looking to healthcare as a first use case.

According to research by the American Hospital Association, growing after-hours workloads and administrative tasks are leading contributors to clinician burnout.

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) continue to face challenges in hiring and staffing retention, compounded by patients’ shifting expectations. Best-in-Class HCOs with “next-gen” patient care programs that deliver excellent clinical results and patient experiences through deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are seeing significant performance success.

At the HIMSS25 Smart Health Transformation Forum, health system execs will explore value propositions of the latest digital tools. Esther Kim of Mass General Brigham, Kali Arduini Idhe of Northwestern Medicine and Marcee Chmait of Providence discuss.

Robust information security protocols and innovative solutions that can streamline operations, ensure scalability, and deliver cost-effective care are essential in this complex environment.