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FDB's Virginia Halsey discusses Model Context Protocols, which act as "contracts" requiring healthcare AI to have a high confidence threshold before it acts and contain its behavior to keep clinical use safe and compliant.

Michael Dalton, Ovatient founder and CEO, says the CMS-led Rural Health Transformation Program will only succeed if funds are used to build new value-based, virtual-first models for providing care to rural communities.

Jeremy Gaskill is the new president of Geisinger Health Plan and executive vice president of insurance operations for Geisinger.

The contract restrictions prevent consumers from choosing lower-cost health plans, lawsuit says.

In his HIMSS26 Smart Health Transformation Forum keynote inspired by Taylor Swift, General Catalyst's Dr. Stephen Klasko will discuss how today's innovations may help bring about a future in which more personalized healthcare is available.

The layoffs follow the August acquisition by Sycamore Partners.

The EHR was impacted and other systems were taken offline as a precaution, officials say.

Dr. Michael Zappa, chief clinical officer at Cape Fear Valley Health and physician advisor at Juno Health, says leaders should ask clinicians which administrative tasks take time away from patient care and determine how those tasks can be automated.

All Covered's Danielle Morrison says the costs of recovering from healthcare IT outages add up quickly as staff lose productivity, appointments must be rescheduled and business operations slow down.

As clinicians' administrative burdens continue to increase, Innovaccer CEO and cofounder Abhinav Shashank says the company's recent publication, Autonomous Healthcare, addresses how AI can give them more time with patients.