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The American Medical Association launched the Integrated Health Model Initiative to bring unorganized data together for a collaborative validation process and Jesse Ehrenfeld, president-elect of the AMA, explains how they plan to do it.

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, talks about how he’s working to modernize FCC regulations to close the digital divide and help rural communities get high quality healthcare through telemedicine innovations.

Jennifer Esposito, general manager of Health and Life Sciences at Intel, explains how AI benefits workflows with its direct impact to be a seamless integration for physicians and the patient experience.

Kirk Lippold, commander of United States Navy (RET), explains how intellectual honesty requires a commitment to sit down with people in the organization to review what happened after a crisis and find a new normal.

Despite the healthcare sector’s awareness of medical device flaws, many are still focused on whether a patient has been harmed. But to UC San Diego researcher, emergency medicine provider Christian Dameff, MD, it’s more about retaining patient trust and ensure the technology doesn’t fail.

Brian Selfridge, partner at IT Risk Management for Meditology, also explains the evolving role of infosec leaders in the healthcare sector – including third-party vendor management.

Johns Hopkins Medicine CISO Darren Lacey shares his thoughts on the sector’s inherent problems, ransomware, remaining positive amid those threats and ways to keep up with hackers.

Chad Wilson, director of information security at Children’s National, explains how timely access to applications in a healthcare setting is measured in seconds so the balance between usability and security is a big challenge.

Theresa Payton, president and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, explains how to avoid digital disasters with a segmentation strategy that includes on-going testing with data, equipment and third-party vendors to put security assumptions to the test.

Manal Almalki, of Jazan University in Saudi Arabia, is empowering patients to monitor their health at home so they can gain insights into their own body using wearables; the tool is also aggregating data during the patient-run experiments.