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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations accelerated investments in EHRs, interoperability, and digital health infrastructure. These investments laid the foundation for a more connected healthcare ecosystem where data flows freely, patients can access care more easily with virtual visits, and remote patient monitoring enables earlier intervention and better care management. Join HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf as he discusses how the future of healthcare is expanding beyond the classic brick and mortar model. 

Professor Linda Macomber, a healthcare tech consultant at Renaissance Health, highlights the transformative potential of AI and digital health solutions, as well as the shift from siloed, symptom-focused care to holistic, personalized medicine. AI applications in healthcare have moved from deterministic expert systems to generative AI models that use genomic and longitudinal data from wearables for continuous monitoring and preventive care. Linda emphasizes that successful AI implementation requires viewing technology as a strategic investment rather than an expense, with a focus on actions that improve patient outcomes and clinicians' quality of life. Linda explains, "Well, I've certainly been involved in all areas of the healthcare ecosystem over the past 40 years. For the past 16 years, I have been a professor at National University, starting the Master of Science and Health Informatics program. The 30 years prior to that, working in different areas of software design and development in the early days with SAIC and the Department of Defense, then Kaiser Permanente, University of California systems, and then some work with community health centers as well. I'm a life fellow in HIMSS, which is only a few people who have been around long enough to have that designation. But started my career as an ICU nurse and still hold on to the clinical informatics side, look at it from the lens of a healthcare professional, as well as the tech, educator, and startup perspective. Most recently, I have been working with a number of different startups."   "Well, certainly when it comes to the opportunities with AI in particular, things are moving so fast and looking at lots of different priorities and opportunities. When it comes to incremental change, it is always a little easier, but I think that opportunities are much bigger now for much more significant advancement of the care delivery system. Bringing care to people instead of people always having to travel to facilities for care, using digital systems in new ways to empower all of us, informing choice, and being much more proactive and personalized."  #LindaMacomber #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #HealthInformatics #AIinHealthcare #ClinicalInformatics #Genomics #Wearables #PopulationHealth #Interoperability #MedicalEducation Renaissance.Health Download the transcript here

Professor Linda Macomber, a healthcare tech consultant at Renaissance Health, highlights the transformative potential of AI and digital health solutions, as well as the shift from siloed, symptom-focused care to holistic, personalized medicine. AI applications in healthcare have moved from deterministic expert systems to generative AI models that use genomic and longitudinal data from wearables for continuous monitoring and preventive care. Linda emphasizes that successful AI implementation requires viewing technology as a strategic investment rather than an expense, with a focus on actions that improve patient outcomes and clinicians' quality of life. Linda explains, "Well, I've certainly been involved in all areas of the healthcare ecosystem over the past 40 years. For the past 16 years, I have been a professor at National University, starting the Master of Science and Health Informatics program. The 30 years prior to that, working in different areas of software design and development in the early days with SAIC and the Department of Defense, then Kaiser Permanente, University of California systems, and then some work with community health centers as well. I'm a life fellow in HIMSS, which is only a few people who have been around long enough to have that designation. But started my career as an ICU nurse and still hold on to the clinical informatics side, look at it from the lens of a healthcare professional, as well as the tech, educator, and startup perspective. Most recently, I have been working with a number of different startups."   "Well, certainly when it comes to the opportunities with AI in particular, things are moving so fast and looking at lots of different priorities and opportunities. When it comes to incremental change, it is always a little easier, but I think that opportunities are much bigger now for much more significant advancement of the care delivery system. Bringing care to people instead of people always having to travel to facilities for care, using digital systems in new ways to empower all of us, informing choice, and being much more proactive and personalized."  #LindaMacomber #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #HealthInformatics #AIinHealthcare #ClinicalInformatics #Genomics #Wearables #PopulationHealth #Interoperability #MedicalEducation Renaissance.Health Listen to the podcast here

The Big Unlock · Dr. Anne Snowdon, Scientific Director and CEO, SCAN Health and Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS In this episode, Dr. Anne Snowdon, Scientific Director and CEO at SCAN Health and Chief Scientific Research Officer at HIMSS, explores why AI has the potential to transform healthcare, but only if health systems build the evidence, infrastructure, and workforce readiness to support it. She argues that while AI is generating tremendous excitement, most health systems are still in the early stages of adoption with many initiatives remaining in pilot phases. Dr. Snowdon explains that healthcare must shift from deterministic decision-making toward probabilistic, predictive care, while developing new approaches to continuously evaluate AI as it learns and evolves. She also highlights the need to improve AI literacy among clinicians and establish stronger evidence before scaling enterprise-wide deployments. Beyond clinical workflows, Dr. Snowdon makes a compelling case for reimagining digital health around patients rather than health systems. She envisions AI empowering individuals to better manage their health while seamlessly connecting them with trusted providers through interoperable, data-driven ecosystems. She also identifies digitally enabled supply chains as a critical but often overlooked foundation for safer, more personalized, and higher-quality care. She believes that the future of healthcare depends not just on adopting AI, but on creating connected, evidence-based systems that improve outcomes for patients, clinicians, and the broader health ecosystem. Take a listen. This guest appearance was facilitated through conversations initiated at HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum.

Challenges and Opportunities in Transforming Healthcare Delivery.In this first episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series from the 2026 HIMSS European Health Conference, host Claire Murigande reconnects with Hal Wolf, the President and CEO of HIMSS.HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is a non-profit organization with a strong commitment to advancing global health through technology, supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem and fostering health equity.In this conversation, Hal and Claire talk about the important role of information in modern healthcare technology, addressing workforce shortages through digital health innovations, and learning beyond borders to integrate global perspectives on healthcare.Be sure to visit our podcast website for the full episode transcript.LINKS:Learn more about HIMSS activities and events at himss.orgFollow HIMSS on their social media channels: LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTokFollow our host Dr. Claire Murigande: WEBSITE | LINKEDINFollow us: LinkedIn | Instagram Connect with us: narrativespodcast@gmail.com | subscribe to our news Tell us what you think: write a review CHAPTERS:00:19 - Introduction to HIMSS Europe 2026 Special Series02:41 - The Role of Information in Healthcare Technology11:11 - Global Perspectives in Healthcare Innovation15:49 - Challenges and Innovations in Healthcare21:20 - The Transformation of Health Monitoring through Digital Tools24:13 - The Role of AI in HealthcareMentioned in this episode:Narratives of Purpose is a proud member of the SwissCast NetworkDiscover more great podcasts for English-speaking SwitzerlandSwissCast Network

In a relationship-driven niche like healthcare IT, the deal happens in the room, not the inbox. In this episode of Content Amplified, Larry Kaiser, Chief Marketing Officer at Optimum Healthcare IT, explains why a little over 60% of his budget goes to events and how he stretches each one across his whole content engine. Larry walks through his year at the two biggest healthcare IT shows, Vive and HIMSS, where he runs booths, stage presentations, and sponsored white-labeled receptions that put his team in front of CIOs as the only vendor in the room. He shares how he takes a single filmed event presentation and repurposes it into a blog post, a white paper, and a podcast episode to pull maximum value out of a $25,000 sponsorship. He also makes the case for LinkedIn-first distribution, with 205,000 followers and close to 60,000 newsletter subscribers, because email is dead with healthcare IT CIOs who told him it will never reach them. Plus why he keeps his content roughly 90% brand and 10% individuals. If you spend real money on events, this conversation shows you how to make it work harder.About LarryLarry Kaiser is the Chief Marketing Officer at Optimum Healthcare IT, a staffing and digital transformation consulting firm that works with provider organizations on Epic EHR, ServiceNow, Workday, and AWS. He has spent 22 years in healthcare IT, an industry he never expected to stay in this long. Larry got his start as an RFP manager and became CMO about six years ago, hitting nearly every aspect of marketing in healthcare IT along the way.Show NotesConnect with Larry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrencekaiser/Text us what you think about this episode!

What happens when healthcare innovation is shaped not only by technology, but by the real human experiences behind it?In this SOHIT HIMSS 2026 episode of Straight Outta Health IT, Christopher Kunney speaks with healthcare leaders, informatics experts, entrepreneurs, and innovators at the Texas HIMSS Regional Conference about how technology, AI, data, and human experience are transforming healthcare. Erica Olenski, Founder of Monarch Futures and August's Artists, shares how her experience as a caregiver and the loss of her son inspired her work in healthcare innovation. She emphasizes the importance of treating patient and caregiver experiences as valuable data that should inform the design of digital health solutions.The discussion continues with Elsie Gori, Nurse Informaticist and Program Chair for the Texas HIMSS Regional Conference, who explains how nursing informatics can improve care delivery through better workflow design, data utilization, AI, and smarter alert systems that help reduce alarm fatigue. Nayan D. Patel, SVP and General Manager for Transformation at Neteera, adds the perspective of both a former healthcare CIO and technology executive, highlighting the potential of contactless vital sign monitoring and the need for AI solutions that solve real clinical challenges without adding complexity to existing workflows.Katherine Taylor Pearson, President of the American Nursing Informatics Association, discusses her journey from military nursing to informatics leadership and explains why clinicians remain essential in guiding AI adoption and interpreting healthcare data. Closing the episode, Ted Lindsley, CEO of CognomIQ, explores how modern healthcare data platforms can replace fragmented systems, transform static data into actionable insights, and create the foundation needed for more effective operations, clinician innovation, and the future of healthcare AI.Tune in to hear how healthcare leaders are connecting lived experience, clinical insight, AI, and data infrastructure to build a more human and effective future for health IT.ResourcesConnect with Erica Olenski on LinkedIn here.Follow Monarch Futures on LinkedIn.Connect with Elsie Gori on LinkedIn here.Follow Lone Star Communications Inc on LinkedIn and visit their website here.Connect with Nayan Patel on LinkedIn.Follow Neteera on LinkedIn and visit their website here.Connect with Katherine Taylor Pearson on LinkedIn here.Follow the American Nursing Informatics Association on LinkedIn and visit their website here.Email Katherine here.Connect with Ted Linsley on LinkedIn.Follow CognomIQ on LinkedIn and visit their website here.

MediQuant is a data migration and health data archiving company for hospitals, health systems and medical practices. It offers healthcare organizations the opportunity to retire legacy applications while maintaining compliance needs.  Plus, they keep important metainformation about the healthcare data so that the archive can be searched and data can be retrieved quickly. In a recent interview with Mike McGuire, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy, we dive into the wide variety of new products and features that MediQuant announced leading into the HIMSS conference.Learn more about MediQuant: https://www.mediquant.com/Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

The borders between countries aren't the only ones that healthcare data needs to travel across. The same principles behind the European Health Data Space can be applied to supporting people's physical and mental health in their everyday lives: at school, at work, in community spaces, and in sports clubs. In Episode 5, the final part of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders,” HIMSS' Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners' Dr. Petra Wilson ask important questions about how data and AI-powered tools can help European citizens actively engage in their health and wellness journeys. 

The Big Unlock · Sally Ann Frank, Global Lead – Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft for Startups In this episode, Sally Ann Frank, Global Lead for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft for Startups, discusses how AI is moving beyond experimentation toward measurable enterprise impact. She emphasizes that the most successful startups differentiate themselves not just through technology innovation, but through evolving business models, strong customer discovery practices, and a coachable mindset grounded in strategic mentorship. Sally explores the challenge of “pilot purgatory,” noting that founders must design for production from day one. Establishing clear ROI frameworks and demonstrating early value are essential to maintaining momentum and avoiding the law of diminishing interest often seen in stalled pilots. Looking toward 2026, Sally envisions a “show me the money” era centered on four bridges: expanding global access through virtual technology to democratize care, closing the investment gap in women's health beyond reproductive care, advancing AI-driven precision medicine through genetics for individualized treatment, and shifting healthcare from reactive treatment toward preventative longevity. Ultimately, the conversation highlights that lasting success in AI will belong to organizations that evolve into trusted advisors, consistently delivering value at every interaction. Take a listen. This guest appearance was facilitated through conversations initiated at HIMSS.

At the recent HIMSS annual conference, we collaborated with AMD at the Dell Technologies to feature thought leaders in healthcare technology. With this panel we discussed how cutting-edge advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) are revolutionizing healthcare workflows, driving operational efficiency, and enabling better patient outcomes.Check out our full list of panelists:* Khalid Turk, Chief Healthcare Information Technology Officer | Santa Clara County Health System* Ed Marx, Former CIO and CEO | Marx Advisory* Harini Malik, Global Strategic Biz Dev Head for Healthcare | AMD* Connie W Hebert, MBA, RN-BSN, Healthcare CNO | Dell TechnologiesLearn more about Santa Clara County Health System: https://health.santaclaracounty.gov/homeLearn more about Marx Advisory: https://www.marxadvisory.com/Learn more about AMD: https://www.amd.com/en/solutions/healthcare.htmlLearn more about Dell Technologies: https://dell.com/HealthcareHealthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com

The European Health Data Space aims to enable health data to move seamlessly and securely across Europe. However, the processes required to achieve this are complex, involving cultural, linguistic, diagnostic, regulatory, and coding elements. HIMSS' Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners' Dr. Petra Wilson explore what it will take to achieve true pan-European interoperability that goes beyond the floor of legal requirements, in Episode 3 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders.”

This episode's Community Champion Sponsor is Ossur. To learn more about their ‘Responsible for Tomorrow' Sustainability Campaign, and how you can get involved: CLICK HEREEpisode Overview: Healthcare in America is at a crossroads, where the systems built to heal people must now reimagine what it truly means to care for an aging and increasingly complex population. Dr. Patrick McGill, Network President and CEO of Community Health Network in Indiana, is confronting that challenge head-on. A board-certified family medicine physician with over 20 years of clinical and leadership experience, Dr. McGill has spent 15 years rising through the ranks at CHN, from practicing physician to Chief Analytics Officer to Chief Transformation Officer, and now to the top seat. Join us as Dr. McGill, who is still grounded in the exam room one day a week, shares how CHN is leading on value-based care, direct-to-employer partnerships, and AI-powered innovation to build a national-leading healthcare organization for Indiana and beyond. Let's go!Episode Highlights:Dr. McGill champions "failing intelligently," learning from mistakes and redirecting rather than fearing failure altogether.A practicing physician CEO, Dr. McGill says the exam room builds humility and credibility that no boardroom can replicate.Community Health Network sees new cancer patients within two business days, setting a bold access standard across the entire organization.Dr. McGill warns that healthcare is unprepared to support an aging population with increasingly disconnected family units.He calls on the industry to reclaim its narrative, reminding us that healthcare is still, at its core, people caring for people.About our Guest: Jason Smith is CTO of AI & Analytics at Within3, where he leads the team behind the company's most advanced AI capabilities serving life sciences organizations. Jason is a three-time co-founder who built Cryptocybernetics, GrayArea, and rMark Bio from inception to successful exit. He was later brought in as CEO of xSides to lead its sale. Over his career, his companies have raised more than $100 million in venture and strategic capital. In addition to Within3, Jason is a Venture Fellow at MATTER, Advisor to Capita3, and a recognized thought leader in AI and Healthcare with publications and speaking engagements at HIMSS, Reuters, and leading healthcare and pharmaceutical conferences.Links Supporting This Episode: Community Health Network Website: CLICK HEREDr. Patrick McGill LinkedIn page: CLICK HEREMike Biselli LinkedIn page: CLICK HEREMike Biselli Twitter page: CLICK HEREVisit our website: CLICK HERESubscribe to newsletter: CLICK HEREGuest nomination form: CLICK HERE

As healthcare continues to evolve, conversations from HIMSS 2026 offer a clear glimpse into what's ahead. In this episode of Value-Based Care Insights, host Daniel Marino is joined by healthcare strategist and The AI Shift host Tom Foley to unpack the conference's biggest themes.Together, they explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing into real clinical use, the persistent challenges of interoperability and data fragmentation, and the growing role of patient empowerment through wearables and remote monitoring. From AI-driven care delivery to the realities of data quality and integration, the discussion highlights both opportunities and gaps healthcare organizations must navigate.Whether you're evaluating AI, strengthening your data strategy, or rethinking care beyond the hospital, this episode offers practical insight into moving from innovation to real impact.

The Big Unlock · Bharat Sutariya, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Health Officer, Oracle Health In this episode, Dr. Bharat Sutariya, Senior Vice President and Chief Health Officer at Oracle Health, discusses the radical transformation of healthcare through AI-native digital platforms. As an emergency physician with over 25 years of experience, including leadership roles at Cerner and Deloitte, Dr. Sutariya provides a unique perspective on moving past the “burden” of legacy EHR systems. The core of the conversation centers on Oracle's bold bet: moving away from the industry-standard “bolt-on” AI approach. Instead, Oracle is rebuilding the healthcare stack from the ground up, embedding AI into the foundational layer. Dr. Sutariya argues that the future of healthcare technology isn’t just about capturing data but about systems of orchestration. This means AI that doesn’t just transcribe a note but listens to the clinical intent to automatically queue orders, handle referrals, and initiate prior authorizations. Dr. Sutariya predicts that within a year, the conversation will shift from documentation efficiency to a truly connected, intelligent ecosystem that gives time back to both providers and patients. Take a listen. This guest appearance was facilitated through conversations initiated at HIMSS.

Cross-border healthcare raises distinct regulatory challenges. Among them are: aligning reimbursement and eligibility rules, verifying professional credentials, managing liability, and ensuring continuity of care. In Episode 2 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders,” HIMSS' Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners' Dr. Petra Wilson talk about Europe's 30-year journey to enabling cross-border care and how the European Health Data Space aims to align EU member states around a single European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format.

This episode's Community Champion Sponsor is Ossur. To learn more about their ‘Responsible for Tomorrow' Sustainability Campaign, and how you can get involved: CLICK HEREEpisode Overview: Pharmaceutical launches are among the most complex, high-stakes endeavors in all of healthcare, and the difference between winning and losing often comes down to whether the right intelligence reaches the right people at the right moment.Jason Smith, CTO of AI and Analytics at Within3, has spent his career solving exactly that problem.A three-time co-founder whose companies have raised over $100 million in venture capital, Jason built rMark Bio from scratch before its acquisition by Within3, where his AI platform now powers launch decisions for all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.Join us as Jason discusses how Within3's Launch Intelligence platform unifies field insights, social signals, EHR data, and stakeholder engagement into one integrated layer, empowering pharma teams to move with clarity and confidence. Let's go!Episode Highlights:Jason sold his house, packed his dog in a U-Haul, and drove from Seattle to Chicago to launch rMark Bio in 2015.Within3 analyzes over 10 billion data points, filtered into hyper-focused disease community landscapes for pharmaceutical decision-makers.Life sciences AI differs from general models because context matters: how an MSL communicates is entirely different from a general user's query.Social listening gives pharma companies real-time aggregate patient and HCP sentiment, replacing slow, one-to-one relationship-based feedback loops.Jason is an 18-year cancer survivor and American Cancer Society advisor, making him personally invested in faster, better therapeutics for patients.About our Guest:Jason Smith is CTO of AI & Analytics at Within3, where he leads the team behind the company's most advanced AI capabilities serving life sciences organizations. Jason is a three-time co-founder who built Cryptocybernetics, GrayArea, and rMark Bio from inception to successful exit. He was later brought in as CEO of xSides to lead its sale. Over his career, his companies have raised more than $100 million in venture and strategic capital. In addition to Within3, Jason is a Venture Fellow at MATTER, Advisor to Capita3, and a recognized thought leader in AI and Healthcare with publications and speaking engagements at HIMSS, Reuters, and leading healthcare and pharmaceutical conferences.Links Supporting This Episode: Within3 Website: CLICK HEREJason Smith LinkedIn page: CLICK HEREMike Biselli LinkedIn page: CLICK HEREMike Biselli Twitter page: CLICK HEREVisit our website: CLICK HERESubscribe to newsletter: CLICK HEREGuest nomination form: CLICK HERE

On this episode Justin records live at HIMSS26 in Las Vegas. His final guests are John Henderson, Vice President, Chief Information & Digital Officer at Rady Children's Health and Hal Wolf, President & CEO at HIMSS.

As financial pressures intensify across healthcare, payers are rethinking traditional strategies and accelerating their transition to value-based care. On this episode Dan speaks with Joe Mangrum, Partner at ECG Management Consultants, about how payers are adapting to rising medical costs, tightening Medicare Advantage margins, and increasing regulatory demands. Together, they unpack how payer strategies are shifting from broad network expansion to more selective, high-performing partnerships, with a growing emphasis on disciplined, data-driven decision-making. The discussion highlights the critical role of payer-provider collaboration in managing total cost of care, along with the increasing importance of data sharing, risk stratification, and more mature value-based arrangements. The episode offers practical insights into aligning incentives, strengthening partnerships, and building sustainable care models for the future.

On this special LIVE from HIMSS 2026 Gil is joined by two-time TEDx speaker Christina Madison, PharmD, FCCP, AAHIVP, the founder and CEO of The Public Health Pharmacist, for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about the profession's inflection point. From the chronic misdiagnosis of cardiovascular disease in women, to the existential threat posed by PBMs and automation, to the urgent fight for pharmacist provider status, Dr. Madison articulates a bold vision: community pharmacists aren't just pill dispensers, they are public health's most accessible, underutilized, and undercompensated front line. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The Big Unlock · Ed Lee, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Nabla In this episode, Dr. Ed Lee, Chief Medical Officer at Nabla, shares how AI is moving beyond hype to reshape real-world care delivery. Drawing on his experience at Kaiser Permanente, he emphasizes that the true goal of technology is not efficiency alone, but restoring the human connection in healthcare. Dr. Lee explores why change management, not the technology itself, is the hardest part of AI adoption, and why clinician involvement from day one is non-negotiable. He challenges the early narrative around time savings, arguing that the deeper ROI of ambient AI lies in reducing cognitive burden, restoring joy in medicine, and rebuilding the patient-physician relationship. He also looks ahead to the next frontier: clinical decision support, diagnosis capture, and chart summarization woven seamlessly into workflows. Dr. Lee's closing thought is simple but powerful – done right, AI shouldn’t feel technical. It should feel human. Take a listen. This guest appearance was facilitated through conversations initiated at HIMSS.

Public health data modernization isn't a quick fix, it's a multi-decade transformation. In this episode, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Population Health and Innovation, Jen Layden talks about the real progress happening across the country and the persistent challenges that remain.  Drawing from insights at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, or HIMSS, conference, Dr. Layden highlights key advancements like the expansion of electronic case reporting, improved syndromic surveillance, and ongoing efforts to modernize vital statistics systems. But she's clear: sustaining this progress requires more than just technology. It demands stronger policy frameworks, a skilled workforce, and new ways of working across sectors.Breaking Silos, Building Success: A New Era of Policy, Funding, and PartnershipsDriving Impact with Flexible FundingASTHO Policy Institute Lunch & Learn Series: Modernizing and Strengthening Data For STI Prevention

HIMSS '26: CMS Health Tech Ecosystem Updates from Ryan Howells Live from the Healthcare Now Radio studio at HIMSS, Jared speaks with Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners. Ryan recaps a series of recent announcement from CMS about their Health Tech Ecosystem, what's coming next, and why it's significant for anyone paying attention to the consumer experience space.  All that, plus our newest shout out to consumer and retail brands working in healthcare.  Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

 The Big Unlock · Roy Schoenberg, M.D., CEO, Aileen and Founder and Executive Director, Amwell In this episode, Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO of Aileen and Founder and Executive Director of Amwell, reflects on the evolution of telehealth and shares a bold vision for AI's role in reshaping care delivery. He argues that telehealth has largely been used as a substitute channel for traditional visits, whereas its true potential lies in redistributing expertise and democratizing access to care at scale. Dr. Schoenberg sees AI becoming the primary entry point to healthcare, guiding patient journeys through intelligent, cost-driven pathways while working in concert with, rather than replacing, clinical systems. Through his new venture, Aileen AI, Dr. Schoenberg introduces a fundamentally different approach to virtual care: building “staying power” in patients' lives through deeply personalized, relationship-driven AI interactions, for seniors. By focusing on familiarity, trust, and daily engagement—delivered through simple interfaces like phone calls—Aileen aims to address the growing caregiving gap. Ultimately, he emphasizes that while AI adoption will evolve gradually, its role as a foundational layer in healthcare is inevitable. Take a listen. This guest appearance was facilitated through conversations initiated at HIMSS.

In this episode, I sit down with two guests who are doing something genuinely different in the world of healthcare events, and they represent two very different moments in the buyer journey.First, Jane Bogue, SVP and Chief Growth Officer at CHIME, gives a refreshingly honest take on how to get real value from a CHIME membership so that tomorrow's HIT buyers view you as partners. She also covers the mistakes that will guarantee you waste your investment. Then I talk with Jeremy Gottlich, Partnerships Lead at Elion Health. Elion is a research and intelligence platform focused on AI and emerging healthcare technology. They run intimate summits built around one very specific design principle: confirmed buying intent. Only health system leaders who are actively evaluating solutions in a specific category get invited, and vendor attendance is capped tightly. Jeremy explains why this model is genuinely different from anything else in the market and why it is resonating at a moment when so many marketing teams are questioning what they are actually getting from big events.I recorded both of these conversations at ViVE, and together they make a compelling case for thinking about your event strategy in a more deliberate way. This episode pairs well with the previous one on making the most of major events like HIMSS and ViVE. Together, they give you a fuller picture of where to invest and what to expect in return.Key Topics:"(00:00)" Introduction and episode setup"(02:55)" Why intimate event communities matter"(05:10)" Jane Bogue on CHIME's role and membership model"(08:15)" Why CHIME is not a pipeline driver"(10:35)" How to engage the CHIME community the right way"(12:25)" Why face-to-face connection still matters"(14:35)" Who should and should not invest in CHIME"(16:10)" Transition to Elion's different event model"(17:40)" Jeremy Gottlich on Elion's platform and mission"(20:25)" What makes an Elion summit different"(23:20)" Confirmed buying intent as the core design principle"(24:50)" Why smaller events are gaining importance"(27:25)" Four practical takeaways for marketersIf you are interested in discussing this or any other topic, let's have a chat.  Reach out to me directly to schedule a no-obligation discussion. This isn't a sales call, but rather an opportunity to talk through your questions and challenges.Follow me on LinkedIn.Subscribe to The Healthtech Marketing Show on Spotify or watch us on YouTube for more insights into marketing, AI, ABM, buyer journeys, and beyond!Thank you to our presenting sponsor, HealthcareNOW, 24/7 expert shows, interviews, and podcasts, powering healthcare leaders with innovation, policy, and strategy insights.

What Actually Makes Event Marketing Work in Healthtech Big events like HIMSS and VIVE are the biggest single investment for many health tech marketing companies. They serve many needs, but there is always an expectation of a positive ROI from them. On this episode host Adam Turinas goes deep with two highly experienced and brilliant health tech marketers on their strategies for creating highly engaging events that deliver strong results: Lea Chatham, VP of Marketing at Heidi Health, and Aaron Bours, CMO at Hyro.

HIMSS '26: Omega, LDA, Certilytics, Med Tech Solutions, Cellhub, 86Borders, Minitab & Solventum Live from ViVE '26, we wrap up our coverage from Las Vegas with a full lineup of health IT and health tech thought leaders on solving some of healthcare's legacy data challenges with emerging tech. Including: Anurag Mehta, CEO and Co-Founder of Omega Healthcar, Shawn Fichter, CEO of Legacy Data Access, Elton Tavenner, Chief Technology Officer at Certilytics, Vik Sheshadri, CTO at Med Tech Solutions, John Tonthat, Chief Revenue Officer at Cellhub Enterprises, Wes Rhodes, Strategist & CTO at Freeman Health System, Dan McDonald, Co-Founder and CEO of 86Borders, Mikhail Golovnya, Senior Advisor Data Scientist at Minitab, Hari Bala, CTO at Solventum, and Thea Campbell, Global Business Director, Revenue Cycle - Revenue Integrity. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

For the 190th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, I am joined by a very special guest host, Reese Maynard, MS, MBA, Owner of AskShereese.tech, to take a look back and review the ViVE and HIMSS conferences! We kick off this review by sharing our big takeaway from ViVE and HIMSS. Next, we dive into everyone’s favorite topic – AI. We share what we were able to learn about AI during these conferences. And on the flip side, we debate on what we think we need to stop talking about with AI. Then, we highlight some of the companies and announcements that stood out and made an impact on us. Lastly, we wrap this review of ViVE and HIMSS up by discussing what we were hoping to see at these conferences, but unfortunately didn’t happen. Here's a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What are your big takeaways from the ViVE and HIMSS Conferences? What have we learned about AI, and what do we need to stop talking about with AI? What companies or announcements stood out to you around the conferences? What's something you didn't see at the conferences that you'd have liked to see? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

Big events like HIMSS and VIVE are the biggest single investment for many health tech marketing companies. They serve many needs, but there is always an expectation of a positive ROI from them.In this week's episode, I go deep with two highly experienced and brilliant health tech marketers on their strategies for creating highly engaging events that deliver strong results: Lea Chatham, VP of Marketing at Heidi Health, and Aaron Bours, CMO at Hyro.Lea and Aaron talk candidly about how they set goals before they touch a single tactic, how they decide which events are worth their time and money, and why experiential activations only work when they are genuinely connected to your brand message. They also get into the execution mechanics that most teams skip: the pre-event outreach, the lead capture systems you run during the show, and the follow-up discipline that determines whether an event was actually profitable.They both end up in the same place: in healthtech, especially when you are selling into enterprise health systems, relationships are the one thing that protects you when things get hard. Key Topics Covered"(00:00:00)" -- Introduction"(00:03:00)" -- Theme 1: Start with goals, not tactics"(00:05:00)" -- Theme 2: Event selection discipline"(00:08:00)" -- Theme 3: Experiential as brand expression"(00:12:00)" -- Lea on Heidi Health's branded Uber activation at ViVE"(00:16:00)" -- Theme 4: Creativity within constraint"(00:17:00)" -- Theme 5: Intimate beats massive"(00:20:00)" -- Theme 6: Pre, during, and post"(00:24:00)" -- How Lea scales pre and post-event systems"(00:26:00)" -- Theme 7: Relationships as durable ROI"(00:29:00)" -- Five key takeaways and closing thoughtsIf you are interested in discussing this or any other topic, let's have a chat.  Reach out to me directly to schedule a no-obligation discussion. This isn't a sales call, but rather an opportunity to talk through your questions and challenges.Follow me on LinkedIn.Subscribe to The Healthtech Marketing Show on Spotify or watch us on YouTube for more insights into marketing, AI, ABM, buyer journeys, and beyond!Thank you to our presenting sponsor, HealthcareNOW, 24/7 expert shows, interviews, and podcasts, powering healthcare leaders with innovation, policy, and strategy insights.

Cardiology Data Pipelines and How to Improve their Clinical Value. Description: Clean, accurate, and timely clinical data is the non-negotiable precursor to AI success. Continuing our focus on data integrity, Beth Friedman, Senior Partner at FINN Partners, met with Diana Sage, Director of Portfolio Management at MURJ, live at HIMSS'26 to discuss the evolving landscape of clinical information. From the lessons of early EHR adoptions to the current data deluge produced by Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs), this episode explores the essential intersection of cardiology clinics and cardiology data integration. Sage also reflects on key takeaways from Dr. Mehmet Oz's HIMSS'26 keynote, specifically addressing the technological fight against the nation's leading killer: heart disease. Inside the episode Sage and Friedman discuss the CIED data challenge, bridging the gap between IT and clinicians, and simplifying workflows for cardiac arrhythmia professionals. Care teams have always deserved tools that reduce cognitive load, a truth that remains as vital today as it was during the first EHR implementations. Listen to this episode to learn how stakeholders across the cardiology continuum are securing the precise data they need to improve patient outcomes despite persistent interoperability hurdles. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

On this episode Justin records live at HIMSS26 in Las Vegas. Stay tuned for the next few weeks to hear all his guests.This week, Hal Wolf, President & CEO at HIMSS and Michael Giannopoulos, Founder & CEO of The All Paths Group. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

March News You Can Use The Pitt, Scrubs, and Why Hollywood Gets Your EHR Nightmare Right Topics include: AI hype at HIMSS is real but questionable; Every vendor has slapped "AI" on their booth, but hospitals may soon realize they're overpaying for third-party tools; Claude's "skills" feature is a game-changer as Craig has found uploading years of personal content; Dr Craig now has an AI writing assistant that spots repetition and makes smart connections, but he treats it like an intern, not a colleague; Always keep your critical thinking cap on since AI is powerful, but blind trust can backfire; In other news social media is literally causing hemorrhoids and 210 million people globally meet the criteria for problematic internet use; Real-world solutions exist as Australia has shown with their ban on social media for under-16s with positive feedback from kids; And the recent round of lawsuits target addictive platform design; Our advice is simple: touch grass, delete TikTok, and leave your phone outside the bathroom. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this special LIVE from HIMSS 2026 Gil is joined on the conference floor for a conversation that cuts against the conference's AI hype cycle. His guests Cheryl Pammer, Head of Insights, and Mikhail Golovnya, Senior Advisory Data Scientist, both of Minitab, bring something rare to a floor dominated by new entrants: fifty years of institutional memory in applied analytics. From their origins powering the Six Sigma quality revolution at GE and Motorola, to their 2017 acquisition of Salford Systems and its machine learning expertise, Minitab has been doing what the industry just started calling AI long before the term took hold. The conversation covers how the same disciplined, data-first thinking that optimized turbines and financial services workflows is now being applied to hospital operations, predicting patient falls, ranking post-surgical care providers, modeling ER throughput, and reducing readmissions. The throughline is a warning as much as a promise: the tools are mature, the opportunity is enormous, and the single biggest obstacle remains what it has always been, organizations that collect the wrong data, for the wrong reasons, before they have ever defined the problem they are trying to solve. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Tom records live at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas. This week Adam Turinas, CEO Health Launchpad and host of Health Tech Marketing Show. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Tom records live at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas. Stay tuned for the next few weeks to hear all his guests. This week he speaks with Dr. Thomas Kelly, CEO and Co-founder of Heidi Health and Denis Whelan, CEO of Documo. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Jim records live at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas. This week his guests are Dr. Holly Miller, Chief Medical Officer at Centauri and Paul Wilder, Executive Director at Commonwell Health Alliance. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Mario Magsaysay, MBA, MHA, RN, CPHIMS Join host Megan Antonelli for a conversation with someone who has actually done the clinical work. Mario Magsaysay started as a bedside nurse in med-surg oncology before moving into clinical informatics, and now leads IS applications for Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, where he bridges what clinicians need with what technology can deliver. Fresh from HIMSS 2026, Mario shares what stood out on the show floor, what hallway conversations revealed about where health systems are really struggling, and what he is actively building at his own organization right now. If you are navigating AI, EHR optimization, and operational complexity with limited resources, this one cuts through the noise. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

On this episode Carol Flagg recorded live at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas. Her guests are Amber Parmentier, HIMSS Enterprise Marketing Director and Shahid Shah, award-winning Government 2.0, Health IT, Medical Device Integration software expert. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

From Analytics Bottlenecks to High-Velocity Intelligence: AI Advances Executive Decisions at HIMSS'26 At HIMSS'26, the conversation shifted from AI hypotheticals to proven, scalable results. In this episode of FINN Voices, host Beth Friedman, Senior Partner at FINN Partners, sits down with Andy Ottum, EVP at Certilytics, to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping data analytics and business intelligence. As data analytics teams face mounting pressure to deliver faster insights across their burgeoning data stores, Ottum shares several real-world examples of executive business insights at unprecedented speeds. Today's health leaders require more than just data; they need accelerated intelligence to drive strategic outcomes. Tune in to this forward-looking conversation to learn: • How agentic AI acts as a force multiplier for human expertise. • Strategies for converting massive data volumes into faster answers. • The evolution of the BI process from backlogged analytics to real-time strategic guidance. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this special LIVE from HIMSS 2026 Gil is joined on the conference floor by Ritesh Patel, Chief Growth Officer at Doceree, and one of health technology's most respected global advisors. Recording amid the buzz of 30,000 attendees in Las Vegas, the two explore the forces reshaping healthcare: AI's rapid shift from clinical promise to operational reality, the collapse of traditional medical publishing, pharma's untapped content assets, and why the world's most important digital health laboratories may be in India, Rwanda, and Ghana rather than San Francisco or Boston. With his signature blend of irreverence and rigor, Ritesh offers executives, innovators, and investors a lucid map of where healthcare technology is headed and what leaders can no longer afford to ignore. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Hosts Colin Hung and John Lynn Answer The Questions We're Asking at HIMSS. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Jim records live at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas. Stay tuned for the next few weeks to hear all his guests. This week, Christina Caraballo, HIMSS Vice President of Informatics, and Timothy Bennett, Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives for Drummond. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Jim records live at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas. Stay tuned for the next few weeks to hear all his guests. This week, Charlie Harp, CEO at Clinical Architecture, and Dr. Joel Salamon, Medical Director of Pain Management at ModMed. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Kassaundra McKnight-Young, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra Technologies, spoke with Doug Green, Publisher of Technology Reseller News, during the HIMSS conference about how technology is transforming clinical workflows and improving patient care through real-time data access. McKnight-Young emphasized the critical role of nursing informatics in bridging the gap between clinical practice and technology. By equipping frontline caregivers with mobile devices and real-time data, healthcare organizations can improve decision-making, reduce administrative burden, and enhance patient outcomes. “When clinicians have access to the right information at the right time, it directly impacts the quality of care they can deliver,” she said. Zebra Technologies focuses on enabling real-time visibility across healthcare environments, providing tools that support communication, data capture, and workflow optimization at the point of care. These solutions help ensure that clinicians can access accurate patient information quickly, reducing delays and minimizing the risk of errors. The discussion also highlighted the growing importance of integrating technology seamlessly into clinical workflows. Solutions must be intuitive and reliable so that healthcare professionals can focus on patient care rather than navigating complex systems. As healthcare organizations continue their digital transformation journeys, conversations at HIMSS underscored the need for technologies that empower clinicians, improve operational efficiency, and support better patient outcomes through timely, actionable data. Learn more about Zebra Technologies: https://www.zebra.com/us/en

Summary: Recorded live from the floor of HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas, this Brand Spotlight conversation with Chris Sullivan, Global Healthcare Practice Lead at Zebra Technologies, explores how technology — from RFID drug tracking to AI-powered frontline devices — is reshaping the way hospitals deliver care, reduce waste, and protect patients. From a groundbreaking pharmacy innovation at Texas Children's Hospital to Zebra's vision for ambient intelligence at the point of care, this is a candid look at what it means to build technology for the people who actually do the work. At HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas, the conversation keeps circling back to the same question: how can technology help healthcare workers spend more time with patients and less time chasing information? For Chris Sullivan, Global Healthcare Practice Lead at Zebra Technologies, that question is not hypothetical — it's the work. In this Brand Spotlight, Marco Ciappelli connects with Chris from the conference floor to talk about what's actually happening in healthcare technology right now. Zebra Technologies, a 55-year-old company with over 10,000 employees and more than 300 healthcare-specific products, has built its reputation by designing tools not for the corner office, but for the frontline worker — the nurse, the pharmacist, the care team member who needs the right information at exactly the right moment. One of the most compelling stories Chris shares is Zebra's partnership with Texas Children's Hospital, a world leader in pediatric oncology. The challenge: high-cost cancer medications — some exceeding a million dollars per treatment — were being lost, duplicated, or expiring before reaching patients. The solution was an RFID-based drug management system, built in partnership with a Texas software company, that now tracks medications throughout the pharmacy supply chain. The result? Millions of dollars in annual inventory savings, improved patient safety, and a model that Texas Children's is now actively sharing with hospitals in Amsterdam and beyond. But the RFID story is just one piece of a larger picture. What Zebra calls healthcare workflow orchestration — the coordination of people, assets, and information across a complex hospital environment — is the bigger ambition. Chris describes a three-part framework: asset visibility (digitizing wheelchairs, pumps, medications, and supplies), real-time information for caregivers (through mobile computers and hands-free wearables), and operational automation (like the pharmacy RFID system). Together, these elements are designed to remove friction from the care delivery process and give clinicians back the one thing they most want: presence with their patients. And then there's AI. Zebra has been building sensor-rich devices for years, and now those sensors — over 15 per device, capturing voice, video, and environmental data — are becoming the foundation for an AI platform built specifically for frontline workers. Chris draws a sharp distinction between AI for knowledge workers and AI for frontline workers, arguing that the needs, rules, and structures are fundamentally different. Zebra's approach is to pre-extract sensor intelligence into an open SDK with over 21 AI enablers, then package those into industry-specific blueprints that can be deployed in months rather than years. The conversation ends where it began: with people. Chris is both a technology provider and a healthcare board member, which gives him a perspective that's rare in this industry. He understands what it means when a caregiver is interrupted. He knows that a nurse who has to stop and look something up is a nurse who isn't holding a patient's hand. That's the problem Zebra is trying to solve — not with a flashy pitch, but with 55 years of frontline experience and a clear-eyed view of what the work actually looks like. Recorded remotely from HIMSS 2026 | Las Vegas, NV | March 9–12, 2026 This Brand Spotlight is part of ITSPmagazine's ongoing coverage of HIMSS 2026. To explore more conversations from the event, visit ITSPmagazine.com. GUEST Chris Sullivan Global Healthcare Practice Lead, Zebra Technologies LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-sullivan-6135624/ RESOURCES Zebra Technologies: https://www.zebra.com HIMSS 2026: https://www.himssconference.com Want to tell your brand story? Reach out to us at ITSPmagazine.com. Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?

Third-party-related breaches have doubled in the last 12 months. Ryan Patrick, Executive Vice President of TPRM Customer Solutions at HITRUST, is not surprised. As organizations outsource more to stay focused on core competencies, the vendor attack surface grows -- and malicious actors are exploiting it through a pattern Patrick calls "island hopping": land on a smaller vendor, secure a foothold, then move laterally toward the real target. The Stryker attack, which unfolded in real time during HIMSS 2026, made the stakes concrete. What began as a nation-state operation quickly became a supply chain crisis. Hospitals relying on Stryker products scrambled -- not because their own environments were breached, but because a critical supplier went down. Patrick argues that availability of services deserves equal weight to confidentiality, especially when a supplier outage directly impacts patient care and revenue. AI adds a new layer of urgency to vendor risk. Vendors are quietly adding AI capabilities to existing products -- sometimes without notifying customers. An EHR platform might add a clinical decision support model as a routine feature update. The health system consuming it may lack the leverage to audit what that model does with patient data. In agentic AI scenarios, where decisions happen without a human in the loop, the consequences are clinical, not just operational. Patrick's advice for managing AI risk: stop treating it as a fundamentally different category. Layer it into existing security programs, policies, and governance frameworks. The uniqueness lies in how you assess AI risk -- not in abandoning what already works. The industry, he observes, is finally moving past the wait-and-see phase. The data on HITRUST certification outcomes is compelling. One organization has gone seven to eight years without a security incident by requiring all vendors to achieve HITRUST certification. External vulnerability platforms like SecurityScorecard and RiskRecon independently confirm the pattern: HITRUST-certified vendors score measurably higher. Certified vendors mature over time. Non-certified vendors plateau. This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight GUEST Ryan Patrick, Executive Vice President, TPRM Customer Solutions, HITRUSThttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-patrick-3699117a/ RESOURCES HITRUST: https://hitrustalliance.net HIMSS 2026 Coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/cybersecurity-technology-society-events/himss-global-health-conference-amp-exhibition-2026 Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight KEYWORDS Ryan Patrick, HITRUST, Sean Martin, third-party risk management, TPRM, supply chain security, healthcare cybersecurity, HIMSS 2026, AI security, EHR security, vendor risk, HIPAA compliance, CIA triad, supply chain resilience, agentic AI, healthcare data security, brand spotlight, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this episode host Tom Foley invites Tom Leary, SVP and Head of Government Relations for HIMSS to discuss AI's role in healthcare and its implications ahead of the upcoming HIMSS 26 conference in Las Vegas. Tom shares insights into the conference's key themes, including AI's responsible use, federal versus state policy direction, and the need for legislative action to create a comprehensive framework for AI in healthcare. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Five Good Things: From ViVE to HIMSS — What's Worth the Hype (and What's Just Fun) Megan Antonelli and Janae Sharp are back with another round of Five Good Things — and this one covers a lot of ground. From standout moments at ViVE to the two-week sprint leading into HIMSS, they're cutting through the noise to spotlight what actually mattered, what surprised them, and what they're most excited to see in Las Vegas. Yes, there's strategy. But there's also a Neil Diamond ukulele parody courtesy of Dr. CT Lin, a The Pitt's Dr. Robby sighting at a Brandi Carlile concert, and serious anticipation for The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere. Because the best conversations in health IT happen in the hallways — and sometimes, down a rabbit hole. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Are we overhyping AI in healthcare before building the foundations? In this interview from the HIMSS Global Conference, Anne Snowden (Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS) breaks down the latest data on global digital health maturity. We discuss why "Person-Enabled Health" is lagging, how countries like Germany are using data to transform their hospital systems, and why the shift from disease management to proactive prevention is the only way to save our healthcare economy. Topics covered: - The 4 dimensions of digital health transformation. - Why AI requires better data governance and interoperability. - Comparing digital progress in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. - The role of "Agentic AI" in supporting patients at home. Video: https://youtu.be/6e8pzH_VslE?si=y6b6y89IoTgtw5at www.facesofdigitalhealth.com Newsletter: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com

Third-party risk is no longer a background concern for healthcare organizations -- it is a frontline challenge. Jason Kor, Principal at HITRUST, works on the company's third-party risk management team, helping enterprises understand the security risk embedded in their supply chains. The numbers tell a stark story: according to Security Scorecard, 99% of the world's 2,000 largest companies are actively connected to a vendor that has experienced a breach in the past 18 months. And Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report shows that the share of breaches tied to a third party has doubled year over year. HITRUST exists precisely to help organizations move from awareness to action. HITRUST will be at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas, March 9-12, at Booth 11307. Stop playing whack-a-mole with vendor risk -- step into the VR challenge and win prizes. For organizations already holding a HITRUST certification, the team has something else waiting: a trophy recognizing the commitment to independent, external audits and rigorous security standards. For those exploring certification for the first time, the booth is a chance to understand how HITRUST compares to alternatives like SOC 2 questionnaires -- and why scalability and risk reduction make it the stronger choice for supply chain assurance. Kor puts it plainly: the audits are time-consuming and expensive because they are effective. And at the end of the process, someone reads that report and makes real business decisions based on what it contains. Two major themes converge at this year's event: supply chain risk and AI. HITRUST has already launched an AI security assessment offering, and new CSF releases are on the horizon, including a report center feature enabling online review of assessments for anti-fraud and continuous monitoring purposes. On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, from 11:10 AM to 11:30 AM, Kor will deliver a 20-minute session titled "Understanding AI Security Risk -- The New Blind Spot in TPRM and Supply Chain Resilience." The session addresses a rapidly evolving challenge: as organizations build their own generative AI tooling -- or work with third parties that have integrated AI into their products -- questions around data sovereignty, input handling, and model provenance become critical, especially in healthcare where electronic health information is at stake. Also on the HIMSS 2026 agenda from HITRUST: Ryan Patrick, Executive Vice President of TPRM Customer Solutions, joins John P. Houston of UPMC and Chuck Christian of Franciscan Health for a Brunch Briefing titled "Building Secure, Compliant, and Resilient Healthcare Systems Together" on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, from 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM at Level 1, Casanova 505. The session offers practical strategies, frameworks, and real-world lessons for organizations looking to reduce risk, enhance protection, and advance trust in an evolving threat and regulatory landscape. This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight GUEST Jason Kor, Principal, HITRUSThttps://www.linkedin.com/in/securityconsultantcissp/ RESOURCES HITRUST: https://hitrustalliance.net Jason Kor Session -- Understanding AI Security Risk -- The New Blind Spot in TPRM and Supply Chain Resilience (Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM): https://app.himssconference.com/event/himss-2026/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfNDMyMTMxOA== Building Secure, Compliant, and Resilient Healthcare Systems Together -- Brunch Briefing (Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM): https://app.himssconference.com/event/himss-2026/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfNDMzNzQwMQ== HIMSS 2026 Global Health Conference and Exhibition: https://www.itspmagazine.com/cybersecurity-technology-society-events/himss-global-health-conference-amp-exhibition-2026 Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight KEYWORDS Jason Kor, HITRUST, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight, third-party risk management, TPRM, supply chain risk, healthcare cybersecurity, HIMSS 2026, AI security, generative AI risk, HITRUST CSF, cybersecurity certification, data sovereignty, electronic health information, vendor risk management Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.