Ambient listening artificial intelligence and cloud computing are two of the technologies Marcus Perez is keeping a keen eye on at the Exhibit Hall of HIMSS25. Not to mention digital health, which is close to his heart. Marcus Perez is president of Altera Digital Health, in Booth 2532 at HIMSS25. The company is a health … Read more
Patty Hayward is focusing on at least three technologies at HIMSS25: cloud-first strategies that break free from on-premise limitations, agentic AI that automates complex workflows without dedicated coders, and AI-driven contact centers that transform patient engagement and operations. Hayward is general manager of healthcare and life sciences at Talkdesk. The company, in Booth 5054 at … Read more
“This is a big year for Oracle Health and Life Sciences,” says Seema Verma, the company’s executive vice president and general manager, as it gets ready to kick off HIMSS25 in Las Vegas. At Oracle Health’s booth (#3221), visitors can see why. They’ll learn more about its new electronic health record, Oracle Health Data Intelligence, … Read more
Meditech is one of the major players in healthcare information technology and one of the biggest vendors of electronic health records systems – and it will be showing why at HIMSS25. In addition to many artificial intelligence advancements fueling the evolution of its EHR, the company will be highlighting its Traverse Exchange interoperability network and … Read more
Front and center at Microsoft booth (#2221) at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas is the launch of Microsoft Dragon Copilot, which the company said is the first unified copilot and voice assistant tool clinicians can use to streamline and customize clinical documentation, surface information and automate tasks. Dragon Copilot combines Dragon Medical One’s speech capabilities that … Read more
Dr. Hamad Husainy is an emergency medicine physician who works in different emergency departments, and he states very clearly that, more often than not, he is inundated with data – very little of which is helpful at that moment in time. He says emergency medicine physicians need the right data, in a digestible, usable and … Read more
IT leaders must enable real-time collaboration between healthcare providers and social service organizations – and as healthcare moves more toward value-based care, seamless data exchange and cross-sector coordination will become mandatory for improving care and reducing costs. That’s what Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo, vice president of research and evaluation at Unite Us, has to say going into … Read more
The dawn of the internet and an impressive breakthrough in transportational technology enabled global corporations to start visualising the whole world as a single city. Animation: Chaitanya Dinesh Surpur The hitherto expansive period of the global economy may now be coming to an end. The 1990s witnessed not only our economic liberalisation but also globalisation. … Read more
Every generation believes it knows what is best for the next. Parents worry when their children make choices different from their own. In business families, this gets amplified. Today, as many heirs to business legacies choose to manage family offices rather than directly running businesses, a familiar skepticism has emerged. There are murmurs that the … Read more
U.S. President Trump’s first week in office saw a flurry of executive orders to implement this new strategy. Image: Kevin Lamarque/ Reuters In his inaugural address, U.S. President Trump proclaimed a bold vision for a new “golden age of America” built on a renewed industrial manufacturing base, productivity growth through a recommitment to innovation, and … Read more