Mike Miliard

Researchers from Mass General Brigham and UCSF found that clinicians who make use of ambient documentation tools for more than half of patient encounters see the most benefits in documentation efficiency, a new JAMA study shows.

A busy and productive week in Las Vegas has demonstrated how health systems are "focusing on practical implementation," with "governance and trust finally being treated as design requirements" for successful artificial intelligence deployments.

The Federal Trade Commission group will do enforcement and advocacy across the private sector, in pursuit of the Trump Administration's goals for a "more competitive, innovative, affordable and higher-quality healthcare system."

At HIMSS26, leaders from CMS and ASTP/ONC discussed the two different but complementary approaches to interoperability, likening the first one to the tides and the second to a speedboat.

AI-augmented clinicians could soon be the expected norm, said the Mayo Clinic health IT pioneer. But there will always be plenty of other challenges to solve. "And that doesn't mean we're going to need fewer radiation oncologists."

Some of the healthcare organizations that could most benefit from artificial intelligence don't have the resources to take advantage of it. At HIMSS26, ideas were explored to help level the playing field for community and critical access hospitals.

Some providers are still in the very early stages. Others are spending big on shiny objects. Still others are well off to the races, with mature deployments enabling robust ROI. Where are we in the AI hype cycle? It depends, said panelists at HIMSS26.

At the HIMSS26 AI in Healthcare Forum, MGB's chief information and digital officer described strategies for governance, safety and sustainability as it strives to integrate artificial intelligence across all corners of the health system.

At HIMSS26, two leaders from New York's Office of Mental Health will describe how they managed semantic data exchange challenges with FHIR and terminology mapping, improving care coordination and critical time intervention for vulnerable individuals.

"Think about where you want to apply AI – documentation, patient engagement, revenue cycle, clinical trials – and go talk to those teams," says its VP of data and research. "The developers will be there. That's where the real conversations happen."