Strategic Planning
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.
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.
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.
University of Iowa Health Care's Josh Wilda says that TEFCA may be useful not only for providers, but to unify fragmented patient portals and give patients a single access point to retrieve their health data across systems.
Brian Mazanec of HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response and Jeff Butler of HPH Preparedness Consultants discuss how the recently released RISC Toolkit 2.0 can strengthen healthcare cyber resilience.
AI-powered search simplifies querying for clinicians, but Microsoft's Kenneth Harper warns that health systems must define trusted sources and guide AI tools accordingly to ensure that searches yield accurate, relevant insights.