HIMSS TV
Maintaining close connections with clinical leaders is essential to optimizing clinical workflows, says Dr. Michael Zappa, chief clinical officer at Cape Fear Valley Health and physician advisor at Juno Health.
Healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison explains how IT outage recovery, downtime and disruption costs some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute" and compromises patient safety and care quality.
Innovaccer CEO and cofounder Abhinav Shashank previews the HIMSS26 panel where he'll join other unicorn founders to offer stories about their origins, early failures and breakthrough wins.
Health tech has the ability to address unmet needs, though careful, thoughtful adoption is required to ensure safe, systemwide impact, says Esther Kim, head of emerging technologies at Mass General Brigham.
Erik Decker, chief information security officer at Intermountain Health discusses the Sector Mapping and Risk Management Toolkit (SMART), which he'll demonstrate at HIMSS26 as a means to help manage systemic risk.
CustoMED uses 3D printing to create patient-specific surgical instruments designed to precisely match each patient's anatomy. Dr. Amit Zabtani, the company’s cofounder and chief medical officer and an orthopedic surgeon at UCLA, explains.
Sustaining Rural Health
Improving accountability and streamlining technical complexities are key to improving cybersecurity postures now at small- to medium-sized hospitals, says Jackie Mattingly of Clearwater.
Healthcare organizations, in pediatrics and beyond, can be more adventurous in exploring, evaluating and adopting innovative tools, says Debra Beauregard, director of medical intelligence and innovation at Rady Children's Health.
Lirio uses its large behavior model, which mixes artificial intelligence with behavioral science, to drive consumer engagement in healthcare at the personal level, CEO Marten den Haring explains.
The field of targeted therapy could evolve to enable even more precise, individualized treatment strategies, says Sergio Calvo, general manager of theranostics at GE HealthCare, who discusses the company's role in developing and investing the technology.