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Senior Executive HIMSS Changemaker Awardee Patrick Bizeau, Swiss Medical Network CIO, says working with vendors to develop more user-friendly, secure AI tools can help prevent clinicians from using consumer AI models at work.
While there were many fascinating speakers at HIMSS26, our interviews reveal that conference-goers also value the unique opportunities to connect with and learn from peers and leaders in the halls.
While agentic AI can surface important insights from volumes of data, project professionals have the skills to provide the structure and clarity teams need, says Karla Mae Eidem of the Project Management Institute.
Sumit Nagpal, Cherish CEO, says the company's AI-powered device monitors patients' health at home without needing interaction and can trigger earlier interventions to avoid emergency room visits and reduce the cost of care.
HIMSS26 attendees share their learnings about AI, interoperability and other hot healthcare topics at the conference.
Robert Herjavec, entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" star, says that as cyberthreats accelerate, he remains optimistic that AI-powered security tools can help organizations detect and block intrusions as quickly as they're launched.
Davies Award winner Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences is piloting AI tools to streamline referral management and triage, boosting patients' access to care. The health system's Vincci Tang and Dr. Phil Klassen explain.
Farhana Alarakhiya of Aga Khan University talks about how she's turning her decades of data expertise towards creating data-driven insights that can solve population health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.
Executive editors from Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews share what they learned about AI during the first official day of HIMSS26, including clinical, financial and operational deployments at Mass General Brigham.
Including nurses in the development process will ensure that new AI products support nursing workflows rather than forcing nurses to adapt to the technology, according to Kaiser Permanente's Surya Shenoy and Jerri Westphal.
Predictive analytics support AI tools and help clinicians connect with patients, but Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, says that, globally, only about 30% of analytics capacity has been realized.
HIMSS26 started on Monday in Las Vegas with topic-focused preconference forums that set the tone for the rest of the week. Listen to conversations with some of top minds in AI, cybersecurity and digital health.