Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

Price transparency for medications and services will make it possible for patients to budget for procedures and shop for better prices with in-network providers, Point-of-Care Partners' Vanessa Candelora says.

McLeod Health approached AI deployment with a focus on removing friction from clinical workflows rather than chasing financial returns, says CMIO Bryon Frost.

AI exposes chaos when fragmented data and broken workflows become more visible during automation, says Michael Vipond of ServiceNow.

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.

AI implementation is expensive and necessary, but that’s where the agreement ends.

To do more than survive the headwinds, reposition the organization to reach the goal, Banks told the crowd 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.

CVS Health, Highmark, Waystar and others partner with Google Cloud for agentic AI solutions.

Tying together artificial intelligence applications and agents can save time while enhancing patient care and revenue integrity, says the software giant, which plans to showcase an array of new copilot capabilities and real-time intelligence plugins at its booth.

Allison Oakes, chief research officer for Trilliant, says the phase-out of the Medicare Inpatient-Only list can drive value and efficiency, but hospitals lose out on volume and revenue.