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The tech giant looks across the entire product development life cycle to ensure health equity in the AI models and tools it makes available to digital health companies, explains Dr. Ivor Horn, Google's chief health equity officer.  

Measuring the impact of the Colombian Civil Air Patrol's volunteer healthcare mission is helping it to increase and sustain services in the most remote areas, says Manish Kohli, founder and president of the Pul Alliance for Digital Health and Equity.  

By leveraging AI, providers can instantly connect to patients locally and keep a communication channel open throughout their care journeys, explains Don Thompson, head of marketing at TeleVox.

In season 2, episode 4 of "Unlocking Big Data," sponsored by Arcadia, Luis M. Ahumada, director of health data science and analytics at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, and Arcadia’s Jake Hochberg talk about AI use for smaller organizations.

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are the chief concerns in the region, followed by cloud adoption and use of machine learning in medical imaging, says Sam Amory, managing director for the Middle East and Africa at Dedalus.

They may need help from AI tools or peer support groups to make knowledgeable decisions based on data from their medical records, says Grace Cordovano, cofounder of Unblock Health and a 2024 Changemaker Award recipient.  

The award recipient, Gabriela Wilson, health and public health informatics director at the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics, discusses how she was inspired to form data-driven public health partnerships both local and global.  

Authors of the new book "Diagnosed," Cris Ross, CIO of Mayo Clinic, and Edward Marx, CEO of Marx Advisory, talk about how their own experiences inspired this tome on patients taking charge of their healthcare journeys after difficult diagnoses.

Among the top global policy issues at HIMSS24: AI regulation, patient access and equity. Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS, explains how the organization advocates for health policies that support those goals.  

The advantages of working in rural healthcare, including speed to market in developing and testing new programs, outweigh the challenges, says Dr. Priscilla Frase, Ozarks Healthcare CMIO and 2024 Changemaker Award recipient.