Artificial Intelligence
During HIMSS26, Guido Giunti, chief data officer at St. James's Hospital Dublin, said hospitals' AI investments will succeed if paired with workforce-focused initiatives.
CIO Richard Taggart says the framework introduces a risk-based governance model for AI use in NSW public hospitals and establishes an AI advisory service to review projects and guide safe implementation.
"Kill the clipboard" is a mantra of CMS as the agency advocates for patients to be able to scan a QR code to bring their data to their provider.
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.
Apple has been weaving AI and machine learning to give insights to both people and clinicians, says Dr. Sumbul Ahmad Desai, VP of Health and Fitness.
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.
Health systems evaluating AI must look beyond datasets and algorithms to understand the assumptions and priorities embedded within the applications themselves.
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.
Identity is part of foundational infrastructure and should be strengthened so digital transformation initiatives can truly deliver, says MDM tech exec Rachel Blum at HIMSS26.