Organizational Governance
Lawrence Voyten, chair of the HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Task Force, urges healthcare professionals to join their local HIMSS chapters to advocate on critical industry issues.
Rad AI CIO Demetri Giannikopoulos warns that AI regulations must be aligned across the United States to avoid cross-border differences in care and ensure consistent standards for patients and providers.
Policy Influencer Changemaker awardee Brett Meeks of Jeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates recommends that healthcare IT newcomers be open to change as AI and other technologies continue to develop.
Sarah Hatchett, Cleveland Clinic CIO, explains that her team is evolving to not only offer technical support, but to help address adoption challenges and secure staff buy-in for new tools.
Medicomp Systems CEO David Lareau says the company's panel of clinicians creates data points that its clinical intelligence engine uses to validate ambient AI outputs and prevent incorrect data from reaching patient records.
AI policy is unfolding in real time on the local and national levels, and HIMSS' Robert Havasy says HIMSS26 provided a venue to hear about these changes from federal and state legislators.
HIMSS' public policy principles suggest AI guardrails to keep AI safe and trustworthy and recommend that they apply across the U.S. to prevent complications for developers, says HIMSS' Jonathan French.
Despite progress in using advanced analytics, Jill Seys, senior director for North America analytics at HIMSS, says that many healthcare organizations are still challenged with tailoring communications for patients.
In the HIMSS Executive Connect program, UVA Health CTO Zeb Elliott learned to engage his teams more effectively to boost their output and get better results without overextending them.
According to Tom Leary, HIMSS Foundation executive director, the foundation assists with costs associated with earning digital healthcare certifications to remove barriers for students from underserved communities.