government and policy
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.
HIMSS26 Policy Influencer Changemaker Award recipient Gayle Harrell, Florida state senator, emphasizes that regulations on AI and other digital technology need to ensure that decision-making power remains with clinicians.
Dr. Christopher R. Cogle, director of the Florida Health Policy Leadership Academy, says designing systems for the most complex and vulnerable populations has created advances for healthcare information technology.
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.
A strong MFN law could be a meaningful step toward bringing U.S. prices in line with those paid by other high-income countries, says Patients for Affordable Drugs Now.
"It's a positive moment," says Kyle Zebley, ATA's CEO and executive director of ATA Action, in a conversation about health tech policy advances and the organization's strategies for 2026.
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ONC senior advisor and innovation portfolio lead Stephen Konya, Moffitt Cancer Center VP of digital innovation Santosh Mohan and the Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack describe their CancerX partnership.
The function that allows those to claim the support wasn't added to the app.