Artificial Intelligence
Highlights of the last day of HIMSS26 included interviews about ambient home monitoring tools and the use of AI to fight fraud as well as keynotes by CMS' Dr. Mehmet Oz and actor Jeremy Renner.
Apple has been weaving AI and machine learning to give insights to both people and clinicians, says Dr. Sumbul Ahmad Desai, VP of Health and Fitness.
At HIMSS26, Dr. Mehmet Oz talked with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf about tech advances at CMS, including using modern identity tools to help Medicare beneficiaries safely access and control their data across care settings.
Health systems evaluating AI must look beyond datasets and algorithms to understand the assumptions and priorities embedded within the applications themselves.
At HIMSS26, leaders from Emory Healthcare and Mass General Brigham discussed how initiatives like the Healthcare AI Challenge aim to help health systems make safer deployment decisions.
Identity is part of foundational infrastructure and should be strengthened so digital transformation initiatives can truly deliver, says MDM tech exec Rachel Blum at HIMSS26.
Called Curiosity Engine, it gives healthcare executives a conversational partner that reasons across live operational data. The company's CEO offers a look at this new system that's designed to offer intelligence in minutes.
To get innovative healthcare technologies into the hands of providers, patients and others, it takes a community of partners to turn policy signals into market momentum.
Tuesday's events at HIMSS26 included conversations about how AI is reshaping care and a keynote by Apple's Dr. Sunbul Desai on how wearables are helping consumers manage their health and discover underlying conditions.
Farhana Alarakhiya of Aga Khan University has decades of data experience, and she's using it to create data-driven insights that can solve population health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.