Dr. Michael Zappa, chief clinical officer at Cape Fear Valley Health and physician advisor at Juno Health, says maintaining close connections with clinical leaders is essential to optimizing clinical workflows.

Abhinav Shashank, Innovaccer CEO and cofounder, discusses the company's manifesto, Autonomous Healthcare, and previews the HIMSS26 panel where he'll join other unicorn founders to share stories of their origins, failures and breakthroughs.

Head of emerging technologies at Mass General Brigham Esther Kim discusses healthcare technologies' ability to address unmet needs while underscoring the importance of careful, thoughtful adoption to ensure safe, systemwide impact.

Recovery, downtime and disruption from IT outages cost some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute," lower staff morale and pose patient safety concerns, says healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison.

Hospitals can increase health literacy by having instructions in multiple languages and tailoring conversations at discharge, says Greg O'Neill, director, Patient and Family Health Education at ChristianaCare, who will be speaking at HIMSS26.

Dr. Amit Zabtani, an orthopedic surgeon at UCLA and cofounder and chief medical officer of CustoMED, explains how the company leverages 3D printing to create patient-specific surgical instruments designed to precisely match each patient's anatomy.

In a preview of his presentation at HIMSS26, Intermountain Health Chief Information Security Officer Erik Decker describes how the Sector Mapping and Risk Management Toolkit (SMART) can help organizations better manage systemic risk.

Debra Beauregard, Rady Children’s Health’s director of medical intelligence and innovation, offers strategies for how organizations, pediatrics and beyond, can be more comfortable exploring, evaluating and adopting emerging technologies.