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John McDaniel, CIO of North Dakota's Trinity Health, is in the midst of a switchover with a go-live scheduled for October. He offers advice straight from the trenches that can help other health IT leaders with this epic – and Epic – task.

With its Zero Harm 24/7 project, the patient experience organization is asking health systems to help drive improvements in transparency and culture by establishing a standardized patient and staff safety framework. 

Meanwhile, it says third-party vendors are to blame for all but one recent case of IT failures.

Dr. Sigal Shafran Tikva of Hadassah University Medical Center and Jerusalem College of Technology, previews her upcoming HIMSS26 talk on making nurses essential decision-makers in AI integration.

The IT pioneer launched the electronic health record company in 1969 after graduating from MIT and working as a programmer at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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.

"A significant portion of any leadership role is explaining the 'why' and 'how' of a change to diverse audiences," says Bruce Barnes of Brooke Army Medical Center, ahead of his HIMSS26 presentation on the value of higher education.

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.

A transient workforce is a fact of life for many healthcare organizations, which presents unique identity governance challenges across the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle. Lingering access rights can present a threat to organizations’ cybersecurity, and this is complicated by working within a hybrid technology ecosystem.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how healthcare IT and security leaders can modernize their approach to identity governance and access management for today’s dynamic healthcare workforce with a single, unified IAM platform with native, integrated identity verification, threat protection, and the industry’s most robust and user friendly orchestration engine.