Artificial Intelligence
Nursing students should be competent with AI tools in the clinical setting before they enter the workforce, advise MaryAnn Connor, NYU adjunct informatics professor, and Olga Kagan, FANA CEO.
"It's coming at them at a very fast pace," says Broward Health CIO Steven Travers, who advises healthcare organizations to ensure new tools fit both what an organization is trying to accomplish and the existing processes of frontline staff.
AI is no longer a pilot conversation. It is a board-level mandate. The real challenge is not experimentation. It is scaling responsibly, aligning stakeholders, and turning intelligence into measurable enterprise performance.
In this session, a healthcare compliance leader shares how her organization moved away from manual, labor intensive processes toward more connected, automated workflows that improve visibility, accountability, and readiness.
Misaligned incentives cause providers and payers to go back and forth on claims, but they may be approaching the same goals from different perspectives, according to Lalithya Yerramilli, SVP of Payment Solutions for Cohere Health.
Mt. San Rafael's Michael Archuleta and Cyderes' Daniel Spitzer outline how AI can be used to enhance care delivery and protect against cyberattacks, having picked up new knowledge from HIMSS26's AI and cybersecurity preconference forums.
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To bring novel precision evidence to existing workflows, the company said its growing medical library is accessible through more artificial intelligence-driven clinical technologies from Meta, Heidi Health, Humata and others.
Medicomp Systems CEO David Lareau says varied data structures and coding systems make transforming the documentation ambient AI creates into usable data for clinical decision-making a challenge.
Robert Havasy, HIMSS' senior director of informatics strategy, says he's interested in how health systems are leveraging AI to assist patients along the care journey, even as they also work to improve provider experience.