The HIMSS26 European conference offers leaders an opportunity to share practical lessons on successful digital transformation strategies, say Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, and Elena Sini, HIMSS board chair.

Immunization data now moves seamlessly between EHRs, pharmacies and registries so clinicians can track what doses patients have received, says Eric Larson, senior health IT lead at the American Immunization Registry Association.

According to Michael Meucci, Arcadia's president and CEO, marrying data about patients, care journeys, costs and more for AI to analyze can uncover utilization signals that providers and payers can use to enhance care delivery.

Juli Hysenbelli of the HIMSS Virtual Care Community and Kyle Zebley, American Telemedicine Association CEO, say that virtual care has empowered patients to actively engage with providers and shape their own health journeys.

Rebecca Love of Nurse Approved explains how decades of uncaptured nursing data are creating major blind spots in the datasets shaping AI systems across healthcare.

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, says the agency has set strategic priorities to unify, aggregate and steward data and to leverage AI responsibly for more timely reporting.

Christy Cunningham, Rubrik VP of sales engineering, discusses how hospitals can secure their identity layer to ensure that patient care continues even when primary systems are compromised.

"You really have to be thoughtful about safeguarding the data," says Andy Crowder, SVP and chief data and AI officer of Advocate Health. The provider has been using Agent Factory, Epic's EHR-integrated artificial intelligence development tool.