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Virginia Halsey of FDB explains how Model Context Protocols set limits for AI models so they defer to human clinical judgment rather than guessing at answers. This prevents hallucinations that can impact patient safety.

General Catalyst's Dr. Stephen Klasko discusses his keynote at the Smart Health Transformation Preconference Forum at HIMSS26, where he'll outline how healthcare can become truly patient-centered by being "tailored to the individual, and made swift."

Pop-ups in EHR interfaces requiring extra clicks that break focus and complicate workflows may be worsening clinician burnout, according to Dr. Michael Zappa, chief clinical officer at Cape Fear Valley Health and physician advisor at Juno Health.

When a small practice suffers a cyberattack, recovery costs may force closures that leave communities without local care options, according to All Covered's Danielle Morrison.

Abhinav Shashank, Innovaccer CEO and cofounder, highlights the company's recently published manifesto, Autonomous Healthcare, and previews his upcoming HIMSS26 panel with other unicorn founders on tackling challenges in health tech.

Esther Kim, head of emerging technologies at Mass General Brigham, shares how the health system evaluates new technologies and decides which innovations to explore while considering clinical need, operational feasibility and scalability.

Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker talks about the SMART toolkit, which identifies critical healthcare functions so leaders can plan ways to keep their organizations running in case of cyberattacks.

According to Clearwater's Jackie Mattingly, sustainable cybersecurity funding for rural hospitals remains elusive, with many states allocating little to no Rural Health Transformation Program money to security.

As medical practices seek to implement agentic AI, Michael Clark, OnPoint Healthcare Partners president, recommends constant oversight to ensure agents' work is repeatable, auditable and traceable by a clinical advisory team.

Alexander Richter, executive director and head of the SciTech Innovation Hub at SciTech Scity, which recently won the World Economic Forum's 2025 Public-Private Collaboration Award, discusses the selection process for piloting and scaling health tech.