HIMSS26
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.
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.
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.
MaryAnn Connor, NYU adjunct informatics professor, and Olga Kagan, FANA CEO, recommend that healthcare organizations hold recurring cyberattack and outage drills to prevent care disruption when digital tools are not available.
Daniel Spitzer, Cyderes' SVP and general manager, healthcare, says understanding attack vectors and having a partner to scale cybersecurity efforts can help rural health systems safeguard their networks.
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.
AI is one of HIMSS' core focus areas, and HIMSS' Lisa Counsell says that local meetings and the upcoming AI in Healthcare Forum can help organizations better understand AI's uses and policy considerations.