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Mark Newman, founder and CEO of Nomi Health, recommends driving accountability on fully automating payments for primary care visits to providers. He says there is no reason why they should be delayed or slow.

Customer service representatives interacting with a patient with a $500 balance who can only pay $50, should use that data to give that patient the option to set up 10 payments of $50, says Casey Williams, senior VP of patient engagement at RevSpring.

Penn Medicine's Anna Schoenbaum says the HIMSS Nursing Innovation Advisory Workgroup, which she co-chairs, has developed AI toolkits and customizable teaching slides to help leaders understand AI's complexity, costs and impact.

Essex County College's Elvy Vieira says the college is increasing access to health technology jobs by offering a data science degree and credentialing courses, as well as a dual enrollment program for high schoolers.

Edward Marx, CEO of Marx Advisory, recommends that healthcare leaders looking to drive innovation in their organizations become innovative themselves by bringing their C-suite to meet with and learn from partners.

Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications, says centralizing health system data provides nurses with a "bigger picture" of operations so they can uncover trends that can improve care delivery.

Trained on two million skin images, it can perform a range of clinical tasks unlike current models.

The University of Chicago's Julie Johnson shares an example of a recent collaboration on an AMIA presentation to illustrate how patient data can help identify health disparities and suggest how to resolve them.

New chief medical information officers should surround themselves with people who know more than they do and create a team that fills the gap in their knowledge and experience, says Epic Emeritus CMIO Dr. Robert W. Warren.

Criteria for a good education session includes content that aligns with global topics, there is no commercialization and that presenters come from provider organizations, says Paul Contino, CIO of University Hospital Newark, New Jersey.