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As home-based care and digital tools gain momentum, aided by CMS' interest in remote monitoring, Hal Wolf says healthcare will increasingly meet patients where they are, rather than depend on in-office visits.
Involvement with the HIMSS Foundation has helped Zebra Technologies CNIO Kassaundra McKnight-Young improve her efforts to develop technologies that give clinicians more time for direct patient care, she says.
As threats accelerate, Robert Herjavec, security technology entrepreneur, says he remains optimistic that AI-powered security tools can help organizations detect and block intrusions as quickly as they're launched.
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, a HIMSS Davies Award winner, is testing artificial intelligence tools that modernize referral management and triage, boosting patients' access to care, according to two health system execs.
Highlights of the last day of HIMSS26 included interviews about ambient home monitoring tools and the use of AI to fight fraud as well as keynotes by CMS' Dr. Mehmet Oz and actor Jeremy Renner.
Ini Ekiko Thomas, VP of IT and innovation at Memorial Hermann Health System, said HIMSS chapter and national activity has helped her connect with colleagues and vendors that helped solve complex challenges.
At HIMSS26, Dr. Mehmet Oz talked with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf about tech advances at CMS, including using modern identity tools to help Medicare beneficiaries safely access and control their data across care settings.
Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews editors recap a busy second official day of HIMSS26, including a keynote by Apple's Dr. Sumbul Desai and sessions on cybersecurity and stepping unexpectedly into leadership roles.
Tuesday's events at HIMSS26 included conversations about how AI is reshaping care and a keynote by Apple's Dr. Sunbul Desai on how wearables are helping consumers manage their health and discover underlying conditions.
Farhana Alarakhiya of Aga Khan University has decades of data experience, and she's using it to create data-driven insights that can solve population health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.