Artificial Intelligence

In a preview of her HIMSS26 session, Dr. Kari Yacisin also explains how health systems must assess their readiness for new AI tools and advocate for responsible, ethical adoption that supports healthcare's focus on humanity.

The public-private effort offers practical examples, common language and reusable tools Medicaid organizations can adapt for their own needs. It's all meant to help states move from uncertainty to confidence with AI.

Tom Gillette, CIO at Miami Beach-based Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Erich Glasbrenner, the health system's chief nursing informatics officer, are focused on transforming patient access and experience in the year ahead.

The Future Communities Institute and its partners in the San Francisco Bay Area plan to use AI to act as a force multiplier for street medical teams that help to improve patient outcomes and social referrals for the region's homeless.

Encouraging healthcare consumerism among the young should be another goal, says Greg Farnum, who works in federal strategic advisory at Audacious Inquiry. He digs into these three issues for the year ahead.

The acquisition allows Sword to scale its presence in the U.S. and bring its physical therapy platform to the German market.

Chethan Sarabu, director of clinical innovation for the health tech hub at Cornell Tech, previews his HIMSS26 talk on AI’s environmental impact and actions stakeholders can take to reduce it.

More than 2,000 post-acute facilities will have the opportunity to access admission, discharge and transfer data integrated into a patient's longitudinal record, according to the Cheese State's designated entity for health information exchange.

Hartford HealthCare and MIT codeveloped H2O, an analytics platform using machine learning to optimize hospital operational efficiency including improving length of stay and staffing efficiency.