Operations

Anurag Mehta, CEO and cofounder of Omega Healthcare, discusses the reasons for clinician and staff burnout and virtual nursing's role in easing providers’ duties, including responding to digital messages and completing EHR tasks.

Adam Hutchinson, oVRcome founder and CEO, discusses reducing phobias using VR exposure therapy, how the company fills the gap in VR psychiatric care access for providers and patients, and its trial on combatting social anxiety with VR.

Dr. Eric Lieberman, CEO of CybersolutionsMD, discusses advising care organizations on ensuring collaborative decision-making in cybersecurity for patient safety - and the government’s role in helping organizations protect their technologies.  

Jonathan Bauer, CIO of Atlantic General Hospital Health System, discusses cybersecurity in smaller community hospitals and dealing with funding challenges and technological advancements, particularly following the Change Healthcare attack.  

Using component pieces of LLMs and AI techniques to extract information can enrich data and analysis for cybersecurity, says Johns Hopkins CISO Darren Lacey. It’s time to start treating data primitives as one of our primary jobs.

To ensure proper AI use in healthcare, chief AI officers must be proactive, reach out to colleagues, develop valuable relationships and set up informational sessions, says Dennis Chornenky, UC Davis Health chief AI advisor.

Chief AI officers should have a strong sense of what the AI policy regulatory environment looks like and an understanding of business strategy, technology and domain expertise, says Dennis Chornenky, chief AI advisor at UC Davis Health.

Dugan Winkie, head of commercial strategy at Cedar, discusses the revenue cycle management-focused company and how it works with strategic partners to ensure payments are satisfied using conversational AI and empathetic communication.

Maite Malet, Asabys Partners director of investments and corporate development, discusses the Barcelona-based firm’s €180 million ($200 million) raise and its plans invest in 12 to 15 health tech companies to expand from the EU to the U.S.

Medical illustrator David Bolinsky, E.mersion Studios CEO and creative director, creates animations representing molecular and cellular biology, and says AI image generators’ hallucinations may affect scientific medical illustration.