Predictive analytics boost AI tools and help patients and clinicians connect. However, HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer Anne Snowdon says that, globally, only about 30% of analytics capacity has been realized.
Dr. Peggy Allen, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Akron Children's Hospital, offers tips for physicians and nurses on the frontlines of healthcare delivery on how they can use their EHRs to better serve patients.
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.
She previews her smart hospital design discussion at HIMSS26 and describes what else she’s hoping to learn at the global conference. And she offers updates on other initiatives at the world-renowned health system, from AI to quantum computing.
Virginia Halsey, senior vice president of strategy and product management at FDB, discusses the MCP standard and how it can scale AI safely in clinical workflows and unlock safe automation across medication workflows.
Healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison explains how IT outage recovery, downtime and disruption costs some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute" and compromises patient safety and care quality.
Health tech has the ability to address unmet needs, though careful, thoughtful adoption is required to ensure safe, systemwide impact, says Esther Kim, head of emerging technologies at Mass General Brigham.
Sustaining Rural Health
Improving accountability and streamlining technical complexities are key to improving cybersecurity postures now at small- to medium-sized hospitals, says Jackie Mattingly of Clearwater.
Its 2026 Innovation Challenge is designed to attract technologies that can support the island's vision for digitally enabled, sustainable healthcare, says Teresa Cope, CEO of Manx Care.
According to Emirates Health Services' H.E. Mubaraka Ibrahim, the UAE is using clinical and non-clinical AI tools across its facilities to give clinicians time back and to support precision medicine and healthier communities.
