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Author and Rock Health founder Halle Tecco discusses her latest book, which advises healthcare startups to test different business models and ensure that their revenue grows along with their impact.

Amid a rapidly changing nursing landscape, leaders for the HIMSS 2026 New York State Nursing Symposium featured programming on skills like networking, communication and resume building to help nurses grow beyond the bedside.

Holly Davis, Bingham Healthcare CNO, says that while funding and data gaps exist, mobile phones, telemedicine and satellite internet mean that care is not as inaccessible in rural areas as healthcare leaders may think.

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.

Aashima Gupta, global director for healthcare at Google Cloud, discusses why successful AI transformation in healthcare depends on more than deploying new technology.

Wendy Charles of the University of Denver and Renee Pratt of the University of North Georgia discuss how providers can balance the speed ambient AI brings to clinical documentation with its accuracy and integration hurdles.

H.E. Mubaraka Ibrahim, CIO and chief AI officer at Emirates Health Services and Senior Executive Changemaker, says that digital health tools need to reduce patient anxiety, ease clinician burden and make care safer.

Patient visit documentation must accurately reflect the clinical reality of patient care to serve care coordination and timely reimbursement, according to Dr. Sari Green, physician executive director at Accuity.

Just-in-time training supports the integration of new digital tools into clinical workflows, enabling clinicians to focus on connecting directly with patients, says Dr. Stephanie Lahr, uPerform CMO.

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.

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.

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.