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HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, with leaders from Hackensack Meridian and Google Cloud, explored how process automation can boost the sustainability of healthcare practices, large health systems and the environment – which has a direct impact on health outcomes.

And patient experience too, of course, which is "so interconnected" with clinicians being satisfied with their work, says VP Jessica Sweeney-Platt. She discusses the cloud pioneer's innovative work on AI and automation, new partnerships and more.

Sessions at the daylong preconference event cover the nurses' roles in deploying AI in healthcare, insights into IT adoption and use – and the role of nurse informaticists in driving change.

Dr. Melek Somai discusses the most promising use cases for artificial intelligence, and describes how his health system has made it an "integral component" of its information ecosystem.