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The popular AI tool for healthcare professionals may also soon come to public outpatient clinics in New Zealand.

Too often, message sending processes are disjointed, says one nursing IT leader – calling for a more personalized approach to comms, both "content and channel wise."

Mass General Brigham plans to make online primary care access available to all insured Massachusetts and New Hampshire residents. The primary care access situation in the Bay State has been called "dire."

A nurse leader from the Mayo Clinic previews her HIMSS26 session, where she'll show how nurses must be co-creators of systems, not just end users.

Chief technology officers, at vendors and providers alike, should stay close to the builders and end users, work with technologists and "productists" to share outcomes, and know when not to build, one telehealth CTO says.

Lacey Jensen, RN, the health system's director of informatics education, previews a HIMSS26 session where she'll focus on the blended learning approach with computer adaptive tools to enhance efficiency and boost knowledge.

Responding to the Trump administration executive order that aims to supersede several state laws already setting safety guardrails, many vendors say that a unified approach is preferable to a "patchwork of conflicting policies."

Severance Hospital researchers have developed an AI platform that converts paramedic voice reports into clinical records, predicts patient deterioration, and recommends suitable transfer hospitals.

Industry voices discuss where AI will make the biggest impact in the healthcare workforce and which positions may be affected by automation.

Beth Meese, the health system's executive director of IT, digital health and enterprise EMR, offers a preview of her HIMSS26 session, which will offer an up-close perspective on how to make ambient tools work to "meaningfully reduce" clinician burden.