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News•Feb 27, 2026
Heidi to Integrate HealthPathways and More Briefs
Heidi AI has partnered with Streamliners to embed HealthPathways into its AI‑driven clinical documentation platform, giving clinicians instant access to trusted care pathways. The Australian Digital Health Agency rolled out a digital‑health teaching toolkit for universities, addressing a gap where 60% of senior educators had not taught the subject. Western Australia launched the Access Health WA portal to centralise bulk‑billed clinics, virtual emergency services and the 1800MEDICARE helpline, while the ACT introduced a publicly reported maternity experience dashboard. In New Zealand, BPAC unveiled CareSuite, a marketplace consolidating GP decision‑support tools, starting with certification and brain‑injury screens.
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 26, 2026
Accelerating Digital Maturity in Residential Aged Care
Whiddon, a leading residential aged‑care provider in NSW and southeast Queensland, has deployed Telstra Health’s centralised care‑planning platform across its 24 homes. The system enables real‑time, point‑of‑care documentation, family portals and mobile workflows, replacing legacy paper‑based processes. By achieving data...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Avoiding the 'Tech Talk Trap' In Healthcare, AI and Health IT Communications
Terry Rubin, co‑founder of The Professional Communicators, will address the “Tech Talk Trap” at HIMSS 2026, highlighting how jargon, information overload, and rapid delivery can alienate healthcare audiences. He explains that experts often lose message control when they prioritize technical...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Voice AI in Hearing Care: Improving Access Without Losing the Human Touch
A HIMSS fireside chat highlighted how voice AI is transitioning from pilot projects to production in hearing‑care clinics. PolyAI’s Alex Brown and Audibel’s Brianna Warner discussed using conversational agents to expand patient access while preserving trust and empathy. The session...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 25, 2026
The Agentic AI Shift in Healthcare
The HIMSS‑hosted session introduced agentic AI as a transformative operating system for healthcare, capable of ingesting the 99% of hospital data that remains invisible to traditional predictive models. Speakers from Philips, AWS, MIT, and Mass General explained how continuous AI...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 24, 2026
How to Enhance Mental Healthcare Access for Rural Children
A University‑run telepsychiatry program in North Carolina screened 44,000 rural children, diagnosing 1,000 with anxiety or depression and connecting 300 to child psychiatrists. The initiative slashed typical six‑month referral waits to under a month by embedding master‑level clinicians in primary‑care...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 24, 2026
At HIMSS26, eClinicalWorks Will Introduce New AI API Tool for EHRs
At HIMSS26, eClinicalWorks will launch the AI API Workbench, a platform that lets developers create custom autonomous AI agents for electronic health records. The company is positioning AI as an active participant in daily operations, with tools like healow Genie...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 23, 2026
Why Red Teaming Is Vital for Health Systems, and Not Just for Cybersecurity
Red‑team exercises simulate real cyber‑attacks to test how healthcare organizations respond under pressure. Pieter Ceelen of Fortra explains that these engagements uncover hidden vulnerabilities such as credential sharing, unpatched legacy medical IoT, and unclear emergency procedures like shutting down internet...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 23, 2026
Space Medicine Framework Can Redefine Value-Based Care Strategy
Shannon Kennedy will present a HIMSS 2026 workshop that applies space‑medicine constraints to redesign value‑based care. She introduces the "Orbital Quintuple Aim" framework, which evaluates five interdependent dimensions of health delivery under extreme resource limits. Participants act as spacecraft medical...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 23, 2026
One Physician's Committed Effort to Bring Virtual Kidney Care to Rural Georgia
Georgia faces a silent kidney disease crisis, with 1.2 million adults affected and only 147,000 aware of their condition. Dr. Sharica Brookins launched Remote Renal Care in 2018, the state’s first fully virtual nephrology practice, to bridge the specialist gap in...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 23, 2026
Weill Cornell Intros New System-Wide AI Education Effort
Weill Cornell Medicine has launched the AI to Advance Medicine initiative, an enterprise‑wide program that centralizes artificial‑intelligence projects across clinical care, research and education. The effort includes a bimonthly Dean’s Lecture Series and a seed‑grant program to fund AI tools,...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 20, 2026
CDC Enterprise Architect to Detail Digital Transformation at HIMSS26
At HIMSS26, CDC Acting Chief Enterprise Architect Ryan M. Harrison will unveil the agency’s Technical Reference Architecture (TRA), a unified framework that codifies IT standards across CDC. The presentation targets both IT leaders and developers, illustrating how the TRA integrates...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 20, 2026
HIMSS26 to Host Native American & Indigenous Health Symposium
The HIMSS26 conference will host the fourth Native American & Indigenous Health Symposium, bringing together tribal and Indigenous health leaders from the U.S., Canada, Australia and Alaska. Since its 2022 launch, the HIMSS Indigenous Community has expanded its network and...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Alliance of Companies Will Help Accelerate $50 Billion in Rural Health Programs
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has launched the Alliance for Advancing Rural Healthcare (AARH), uniting seven partners—including Arcadia, Castlight Health, Covista, Mission Mobile Medical, Telemedicine.com, TruBridge and Walgreens—to execute the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation program. The alliance will bolster the...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Health Systems Must Connect with Patients in More Meaningful Ways
Health systems are accelerating digital transformation post‑COVID, with HIMSS research showing that hospitals possessing advanced digital maturity are 3.25 times more likely to earn higher safety grades and experience lower infection and adverse event rates. The pandemic also shifted patients from...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)