HIMSS27

HIMSS27 Unveiled: Online Preview Event

November 12, 2026
11:00AM - 4:00PM ET
HIMSS27 Unveiled

Healthcare executives are navigating a perfect storm: legacy systems that can't keep pace with innovation, workforce sustainability crises threatening operations, AI deployments racing ahead of governance frameworks, administrative friction bleeding billions, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities hiding in plain sight.

This virtual conference delivers honest conversations with leaders who've been exactly where you are—and figured out what actually works.

You'll hear from C-suite executives executing integrated transformation across digital, people, and financial fronts simultaneously. Leaders who've eliminated administrative chaos costing millions through interoperability and automation. CISOs who've earned strategic influence by translating technical threats into business impact. Healthcare innovators navigating agentic AI's experimental reality, sharing what's working, what failed, and what they're still figuring out. Organizations building future-ready workforces that thrive as healthcare evolves.

Walk away with immediately actionable playbooks for integrated C-suite leadership, adaptive AI governance, administrative friction elimination, cybersecurity communication that unlocks resources, medical device security integration, and workforce transformation strategies that separate high performers from everyone else.

Topics Include:

Apply integrated leadership approaches that align digital transformation, workforce sustainability, and financial objectives into cohesive organizational roadmaps addressing C-suite pressures simultaneously.
Analyze administrative friction sources within your organization to identify high-impact opportunities for interoperability, automation, and workflow optimization that reduce costs and free clinical capacity.
Evaluate current AI governance frameworks against adaptive models that balance innovation with accountability, including risk-based approaches for ethics, equity, and continuous monitoring that scales with organizational AI ambitions.
Assess cybersecurity vulnerabilities—particularly in connected medical devices—and translate technical threats into financial impact using communication frameworks that position security as a strategic business function rather than an IT cost center.
Design future-ready workforce strategies using proven approaches from high-performing organizations, including automation that eliminates friction, predictive analytics, team-based care models, and continuous learning systems that build adaptive, resilient careers.

Agenda

Editorial Keynote
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET
Opening Keynote: Three Fronts, One Leadership Agenda: Mastering Digital, People, and Financial Transformation
Moderated by: Harold F. Wolf III, President & CEO, HIMSS
Speaker(s): Kevin B. Mahoney, Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System

C-suite executives face simultaneous pressures: digital transformation demands, workforce sustainability crises, and financial performance expectations—while boards demand faster results. This candid fireside chat explores how top healthcare leaders are executing across all three fronts as one integrated strategy, including what didn't work and why. Discover governance frameworks for digital readiness, human-centered leadership models that reduce burnout, and organizational strategies that align transformation initiatives with financial objectives. Learn how successful executives build vision, maintain momentum, and deliver measurable improvements in retention, adoption, and performance. Practical insights for integrated leadership.

The Rising Cost of Healthcare Session
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM ET
It's Not Expensive Care—It's Expensive Friction: The Billions We Waste on Administrative Chaos
Moderated by: Howard Landa, MD Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Adventist Health
Panelists: Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Premier Health; Viet Nguyen, MD, Chief Standards Implementation Officer, HL7 International

Healthcare's cost crisis isn't about expensive care—it's about expensive friction. Billions wasted on fax machines, three-phone-call prior authorizations, systems that don't talk to each other, and clinicians drowning in documentation. This panel exposes the friction costing you millions and reveals what's working: interoperability eliminating duplicate work, automation freeing clinical capacity, and rural strategies preventing costly emergency utilization. Industry leaders will share real implementations, real challenges, and real results. No theory. No buzzwords. Just proven strategies for fixing the administrative chaos that's crushing your margins.

The Future of Health Session
1:00 PM - 1:45PM ET
The Future of Healthcare Work: Automate, Flex, Predict, Learn
Moderated by: Anne Snowden, RN, PhD, FAAN, Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS
Speaker(s): Ron Walls, Chief Operating Officer, Mass General Brigham

Healthcare workforce pressures are not temporary, and they cannot be solved by hiring alone. Forward-looking health systems are rethinking how work gets done—using automation to reduce friction, flexible staffing models to support new care environments, predictive analytics to anticipate workforce needs, and continuous learning to build adaptable teams.

Join provider leaders as they share how they are moving from reactive workforce management to more strategic workforce design. This session will explore practical approaches to reducing administrative burden, aligning staffing with demand, supporting team-based care, and preparing the workforce for ongoing clinical, operational, and digital change.

AI Session
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET
Agentic AI Trailblazers: Peer Conversations on What's Working and What's Not
Moderated by: Kali Arduini Ihde, Director of Ventures & Innovation, Northwestern Medicine
Panelists: Crystal Broj, CPDHTS, Enterprise Chief Digital Transformation Officer Medical, University of South Carolina (MUSC), Christina Slemp, DHA, MHA, MSHI, System Vice President Revenue Cycle Operations – Financial Services, University of North Carolina Health; Salim Hayek, MD, FAHA, FACC, Professor and Chair of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch

Join healthcare leaders who've deployed agentic AI for peer-to-peer conversations about real experiences—not polished case studies. They'll discuss what's actually happening with intelligent agents in healthcare operations and support. Expect honest talk: implementations that exceeded expectations, pilots that stalled, staffing impacts nobody predicted, and technical challenges still being solved. This panel shares ongoing experiments, partial wins, spectacular failures, and lessons learned through trial and error. Nobody has perfect answers. Everyone's figuring it out. Learn from peers navigating agentic AI's messy reality.

Cybersecurity Session
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET
A Cybersecurity Seat at the Strategy Table: How Privacy and Security Leaders Earned It
Moderated by: Samantha Jacques, PhD, FACHE, AAMIF, FACCE, Vice President of Clinical Engineering at McLaren Health;
Panelists: John Frushour, Chief Information Security Officer, New York-Presbyterian Hospital System

You speak vulnerabilities, threat vectors, and zero-trust architectures. Your board speaks revenue growth, operational efficiency, and competitive positioning. This language barrier keeps cybersecurity trapped in the IT budget while enterprise risks escalate. This session reveals the translation framework successful CISOs at leading health systems use to bridge the communication gap: converting technical threats into financial impact, framing security investments as strategic enablers, and building governance structures that position privacy and cybersecurity as core business functions. The communication strategies that earned CISOs their seat at the strategy table: unlocking resources, influence, and organizational commitment.

HIMSS27 Unveiled: Online Preview Event

November 12, 2026
11:00AM - 4:00PM ET

Speakers

John Frushour
Chief Information Security Officer, New York-Presbyterian Hospital System
Salim Hayek, MD, FAHA, FACC
Professor and Chair of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch
Kevin B. Mahoney
Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Anne Snowden, RN, PhD, FAAN
Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS
Christina Slemp, DHA, MHA, MSHI
System Vice President Revenue Cycle Operations – Financial Services, University of North Carolina Health
Viet Nguyen, MD
Chief Standards Implementation Officer, HL7 International
Crystal Broj, CPDHTS
Enterprise Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Samantha Jacques, PhD, FACHE, AAMIF, FACCE
Vice President of Clinical Engineering, McLaren Health
Kali Arduini Ihde
Director of Ventures & Innovation, Northwestern Medicine
Ron Walls
Chief Operating Officer, Mass General Brigham
Margaret Lozovatsky, MD
Chief Digital and Information Officer, Premier Health
Howard Landa, MD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Adventist Health
Hal Wolf III
President and CEO of HIMSS
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