Global Health Equity Week 2025 begins Monday, Nov. 10, with a focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and equity in healthcare. The opening theme, AI for Equitable Health Outcomes: Balancing Innovation with Impact, brings together global voices exploring how health systems, developers and clinicians can ensure AI advances health equity.

The day’s programming includes Global Perspectives on Implementing AI, a whitepaper curated by the HIMSS Physician Committee that examines how healthcare organizations worldwide are adopting AI. The report explores leadership roles, implementation strategies and challenges in shaping equitable integration of AI in care delivery.

Bridging the Gap: Challenges in Evaluating AI Tools for Interpretation and Translation in Healthcare addresses the crucial issue of language access, highlighting how AI-driven interpretation tools are being evaluated for effectiveness and safety. The article also calls for standardized frameworks and interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure the technologies meet the needs of diverse patient populations.

In Latin America, Inteligencia artificial abierta a la comunidad, a HIMSS-partnered article, explores how open-source software and transparent datasets are driving innovation across the region.

Monday also features a HIMSS TV interview with Dr. Jonah Zaretsky of NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn, who shared research on using AI to translate patient chart notes into more readable, patient-friendly language.

The HIMSSCast podcast episode AI Assurance Labs Could Improve Health Equity features Brigham Hyde, CEO of Atropos Health, who discussed how greater transparency and AI assurance testing could help address inequities in healthcare outcomes.

The first day of Global Health Equity Week 2025 highlights collaboration, reflection and innovation guided by the shared goal of ensuring the power of AI drives equitable healthcare for all.