Highlights from the second day of global conference include telehealth legislation, EMRAM Stage 7 achievements and AI. HIMSS Media executive editors discuss.  

LAS VEGAS – Republicans are expected to release the text of a spending bill as soon as this weekend, ahead of a March 14 deadline, according to Politco. The stopgap measure would avoid a government shutdown. A budget blueprint calls for $880 billion in spending cuts from the Energy and Commerce Committee. While it doesn’t […]

LAS VEGAS – The new Emerge Innovation Experience that debuted at HIMSS25 featured speakers from health systems who talked about the importance of finding the right business partner. “A good partner is one who wants to be part of your team, has skin in the game,” said Crystal Broj, enterprise chief digital transformation officer at […]

LAS VEGAS – HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf addressed funding cuts for medical research during a press conference at HIMSS25 here on Tuesday. “I think we’re at the beginning of a very shaky period,” Wolf said. “I think that we’re all concerned.” Fifty percent of healthcare in the United States is funded by the […]

Executive editors from Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews give a summary of where and how AI is being used and how it’s being integrated into organizational goals.  

LAS VEGAS – Smartwatches and other wearable devices can capture more information than is displayed on an ICU monitor, and while data from ICU monitors is still essential in patient care, wearable data is often ignored as a part of outpatient care. But consumers are using wearables to track their health data all the time, […]

LAS VEGAS – HIMSS25 keynote speaker Robert Herjavec is a television icon, best known for his role on ABC’s Shark Tank even when it was known as Dragon’s Den in Canada when it started in 2005. He’s been on TV for 21 years, including Dancing with the Stars, where he met his wife. What has […]

LAS VEGAS – Intelligent logistics robots and social robots are having a transformative impact on healthcare. Health systems across the globe are experiencing workforce shortages, and robotics holds the promise of automating certain non-critical tasks, allowing medical staff to concentrate on clinical duties.

LAS VEGAS – AI is the new wave for project management, according to Pierre Le Manh, president and CEO of PMI, the Project Management Institute, who spoke with HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf during a fireside chat at the HIMSS25 Executive Summit here on Monday.