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Check out some of the major topics of the day and conversations with healthcare IT leaders at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.

Also, a new mobile CPD app for GPs has gone live in Australia.

The Victorian Heart Hospital has adopted a role-based messaging platform provided by FiveP.

"This is where all of the staff in our hospital start to become cyber first responders. They know what to look for, they know who to call, and they know what to do," said Nate Lesser, VP and CISO at Children's National Hospital, at HIMSS23.

Provider organizations should consider alternatives to alleviate clinician burnout and deliver stronger ROI, contends Holly Urban of CliniComp.

With artificial intelligence evolving at rapid speed, Dr. Sonya Makhni, medical director of Mayo Clinic Platform Solutions, discusses promising use cases, deployment challenges, algorithmic integrity, patient safety and more.

At the HIMSS23 opening keynote discussion, artificial intelligence innovators debated about how to weigh the "tremendous opportunities" for healthcare algorithms with the "risks – some of which we may not yet know about."

It will continue to be a challenge to find and retain health workers, predicts Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics chief economist, during a preview of his HIMSS23 keynote.

We speak with the vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement about the ways technology can contribute to safer provider organizations, and places it falls short.