Strategic Planning

The health system's Andrew Rubin shares a "wow" story about staff buying pizza for a transplant patient during his final appointment because he had mentioned at a previous visit that he was excited to eat pizza again following a very restricted diet.

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.

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.

HIMSS provides support and community, and is advancing EHR initiatives to connect tribal health systems.

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.

Hospitals must balance continued outpatient expansion with necessary inpatient modernization, report says.

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.

Now the global chief medical officer for Aidoc, Ehrenfeld will discuss how AI should be integrated into clinical systems.