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While 10 of the 28 companies in the 2025 NHS Innovation Accelerator cohort include AI in their tools, co-director Mindy Simon says the health system is primarily interested in useful applications that can connect to existing systems.

The annual wellness visit and breast cancer screening campaigns show how a health system can succeed with value-based care. The provider also achieved a more than 28% improvement in care-gap closures.

Mercy's Tracy Breece expects that in five years artificial intelligence will seamlessly integrate into nurses' workflows, empowering them to fully engage with patients and provide holistic care.

Symplr's platform aims to integrate systems to reduce nurses' workload and give them more time for patient care. The company's Tony DiGiorgio says it can help nurses struggling with managing data across many digital tools.

The 51-hospital health system improved patient throughput in the ED for behavioral health patients, reduced door-to-needle times for stroke patients and enabled rural hospitals to retain more patients through increased specialist access.

Proposals would require Veterans Affairs to contractually prohibit the sale of patient information and report on electronic health record workflow benchmarks, quality metrics and resources provided to VA facilities ahead of new installations.

Sara Meinke and Asad Tariq of Baptist Health say they took an outcomes-driven approach to lessening clinicians' burden, helping reach the highest level of the community care maturity model.

Nurses and physicians report significant workflow improvements over the past year, according to a new KLAS report, but say slow response times, unproductive charting and excessive messaging still need to be addressed.

Panissa Caldwell, RN, the health system’s director of clinical services, explains how telehealth, artificial intelligence and other tools can help nurses make the most of their educations and careers.

Convening thought leadership and promoting maturity models that measure integration success are just two of the ways HIMSS is helping support and advance AI across the healthcare industry, said President and CEO Hal Wolf at HIMSS25 Europe.