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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.
The value of HIMSS membership, explains Tammy Kwiatkoski, HIMSS' senior director for global communities, is not measured in online engagement metrics, but in the lessons and resources that members take back to their workplaces.
Within health systems, AI agents can serve as assistants for clinicians and revenue cycle teams so they can focus on higher-value, purpose-driven work like patient care and decision-making, Google's Aashima Gupta explains.
Changemaker Award recipient Dr. Deepti Pandita of UCI Health urges anyone working in healthcare to get involved with HIMSS and specifically recommends that clinicians use HIMSS' Physician Informatics Research Hub.
Rather than serving on advisory boards, experienced clinicians are needed to help develop wearables that align with real-world care delivery, according to Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer at the American College of Cardiology.
Our HIMSS26 interviewees say that early strategizing using the conference app to decide which sessions to attend from a packed agenda and which booths to visit in the busy expo hall can help make the most of attendance.
Although HIMSS26 attendees want to learn about new digital tools, they say the real value in coming back to the conference every year is in making new friends, checking in with old friends and sharing ideas and challenges.
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.
Still active in the HIMSS Michigan chapter she started in 2002, SEMHIE VP and CIO Helen Hill, who is a HIMSS26 Founder Changemaker awardee, says the chapter actively recruits university students to advance advocacy work.
Dr. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer at Amazon Web Services, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how innovations have and will transform healthcare.