HIMSS26

Day 3 of HIMSS26 featured Dr. Mehmet Oz and other CMS leaders discussing how AI and digital technologies are poised to improve Americans' health as well as actor Jeremy Renner sharing his powerful story of recovery, care and healing.

HIMSS is a trusted partner that enables health IT leaders to learn how others are cultivating curiosity and innovation across their organizations, says 2026 Changemaker Awardee Ini Ekiko Thomas of Memorial Hermann Health.

Hal Wolf, HIMSS CEO, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS administrator, talk about how using digital tools, including AI agents, can help Americans manage their own care and stay healthier longer, potentially unlocking massive economic gains.

During HIMSS26, attendees used astronaut medical emergency simulations to explore decision-making, resource allocation and value-based care strategies under extreme constraints.

At HIMSS26, leaders from Emory Healthcare and Mass General Brigham discussed how initiatives like the Healthcare AI Challenge aim to help health systems make safer deployment decisions.

Editors from MobiHealthNews, Healthcare Finance News and Healthcare IT News review the sessions and keynotes they covered during the second official day of HIMSS26 as well as what they were looking forward to seeing on the final day of the conference.

Highlights from the second full day of HIMSS26 include conversations about how health systems can deploy AI, increase price transparency, find the right vendor partners and improve governance.

HIMSS Changemaker Awardee Farhana Alarakhiya discusses Afya Gemma, an AI-powered tool that provides best practice protocols with local context in English or Swahili for Kenyan doctors practicing in remote clinics.

HL7's Da Vinci Project is using the FHIR standard to create an open-source data implementation exchange guide that will help payers and providers share price estimates, according to Point-of-Care Partners' Vanessa Candelora.

At HIMSS26, Nathan Tierney, former deputy CIO and chief people officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, discussed how executives can navigate constant disruption by using structured decision-making frameworks.