Quality Care

Traditional mental health intake often means long waits. Vincci Tang and Dr. Phil Klassen of the Davies Award-winning Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Services discuss how AI-assisted triage can guide patients to the appropriate care faster.

Also, Medtech Global has integrated a clinical documentation AI into its popular patient management system in New Zealand.

During HIMSS26, attendees used astronaut medical emergency simulations to explore decision-making, resource allocation and value-based care strategies under extreme constraints.

HIMSS Changemaker Awardee Farhana Alarakhiya discusses Afya Gemma, an AI-powered tool that provides best practice protocols with local context in English or Swahili for Kenyan doctors practicing in remote clinics.

At HIMSS26, Verily Life Sciences announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics to combine Galaxy Watch8 with Verily's precision health platform to further clinical research.

General Catalyst's Dr. Stephen Klasko says he's launched a medical education program that integrates AI and data literacy and chooses students based on communication skills, empathy and cultural competence rather than test scores.

At Akron Children's Hospital, Dr. Peggy Allen says clinicians leverage technology such as smartphones, ambient listening AI and smart medication-dosing tools within EHRs to provide personalized care and build trust with patients.

Mount Sinai Health System, Nvidia and ARC Innovation Center leaders describe how their collaboration aims to decode the human genome using AI in order to more precisely predict disease risk and understand individual therapy response.

HIMSS26 speaker Andrew Rubin will discuss how NYU Langone Health established a service-oriented patient interaction program in its ambulatory care centers that has improved patient satisfaction.

It has demonstrated high accuracy in detecting pancreatic cancer by extracting and analysing 260,000 metabolic signals from just 500 microlitres of blood serum.