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AI Agents in Your Interoperability Stack: Who's Actually in Control?

Every health system leader wrestling with AI keeps landing on the same question: where does capability end and authority begin? This session unpacks how agentic AI moves from answering questions to taking action, and why healthcare data raises the stakes…

Oct 30, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:

Vignesh Subramanian, SVP Product Management, Infor
Amanda Merritt, VP, Service Industries Product & Innovation, Infor

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The No Surprises Act for out-of-network providers, what is it?

The No Surprises Act is the most important piece of legislation for providers that most have never heard about. After years of patient complaints regarding balance billing, the NSA was launched Jan. 1, 2022, to protect patients and their rights…

Jason Shenefield on Making Rural Healthcare More Affordable and Embracing AI

In this episode, Jason Shenefield, MBA, FACHE, President and Chief Executive Officer of Phelps Health, discusses expanding affordable care through direct-to-employer strategies, advancing patient experience with AI and ambient listening, and navigating workforce, reimbursement and regulatory challenges in rural healthcare.

Abridge selected for VA ambient AI enterprise contract

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selected Abridge to provide ambient AI technology under a nationwide enterprise contract. The multiple-award contract allows VA medical centers and regions to deploy Abridge for clinicians. It has a total ceiling of $775.72 million…

CommonSpirit revenue cycle leader's guardrails on AI and denials

Artificial intelligence has arrived on both sides of the hospital-health plan negotiating table, and Deborah Greer, MD, wants to make sure one thing doesn’t get lost in the speed: the physician who has to own the call. Dr. Greer is…

VCU Health hit 5 years of growth. Now comes the hard part.

Health system CEOs strive for sustained growth. Marlon Levy, MD, a career transplant surgeon who stepped into the CEO role at Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health four years ago, has been able to achieve it. But that doesn’t mean the health…

MGB nurses rally outside innovation forum ahead of strike vote

Nurses and clinicians from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham who are part of the Massachusetts Nurses Association are rallying outside the health system’s World Medical Innovation Forum Sept. 22-23. Five things to know: 1. The rallies call on Mass General…

McKesson says cyber incident affected oncology, multispecialty customers

McKesson said unauthorized access and data exfiltration tied to a cybersecurity incident was limited to certain third-party applications affecting a subset of customers within its Oncology & Multispecialty business. The company said in a Sept. 21 update that the incident…

GLP-1s and blindness: 6 things to know

Thousands of lawsuits, including at least 4,000 consolidated claims, allege GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and Trulicity have caused vision loss, with a recent wave focused specifically on nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, according to a Sept. 21…

Kaleida Health receives ‘transformational gift’

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health has received a ‘transformational gift’ from the Scott Bieler Family Foundation to its Kaleida Health Foundation to support projects at its Buffalo General Medical Center. The donation amount was not provided. Kaleida will rename the hospital…