Mary Beth Seaman, president of the HIMSS Southern California Chapter, highlights the upcoming annual CXO Summit on May 12th at the Richard Nixon Library, featuring healthcare stakeholders discussing how policies are impacting care delivery.

Alexandra Wright, director of research of HIMSS' Office of Scientific Research, talks about how HIMSS analytics and advisory services help healthcare organizations determine the necessary steps to reach their strategic goals.

But continuity, confidentiality and compliance aren't the only imperatives hospitals and health systems need to manage when IT systems are down and workflows are suddenly paper-based, says Rebecca Romine, health law shareholder at Polsinelli.

Bob Watson, Health Gorilla CEO, says that proving interoperability's financial benefits may encourage health systems to connect to TEFCA networks.

Marcus Perez, president of Altera Digital Health, discusses the highly concentrated electronic health records arena and explains how it might hurt innovation and patient outcomes over the next decade.

Innovaccer CEO Abhinav Shashank says the company's agentic AI cloud enables health systems to consolidate administrative workloads on a common infrastructure rather than purchase individual tools for each process.

Suki CEO Punit Soni and Puneet Maheshwari, Optum Real senior vice president, discuss how AI is helping their companies bridge the gap between payers and providers and make revenue cycle management more efficient.

Julia Zarb, Blue x Blue CEO and founder, says healthcare can't follow the same digitization practices as other industries due to its patient variables, strict care delivery policies and the need for human judgment.