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HIMSS26: Other News From Around the Conference

During the annual global healthcare technology event in Las Vegas, industry partners shared their latest insights and announcements.

Teta Alim

Teta Alim is the managing editor of HealthTech. Teta previously worked as a digital journalist in Washington, D.C.

The 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition wrapped up Thursday, but there were plenty of lessons for healthcare organizations to consider beyond Las Vegas. Here’s a roundup of some of the major industry announcements that coincided with the annual conference:

Microsoft is updating the capabilities of Dragon Copilot to do more than clinical documentation, including role-specific support for physicians, nurses and radiologists; integrations with certain applications, such as clinical decision support and revenue cycle management; and greater language options.
Google Cloud has announced partnerships with Highmark Health, CVS Health and others that are helping to scale agentic artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Zoom has new integrations with Epic’s electronic health records system to support patient communication and reduce clinical documentation burden.
Zebra Technologies has shared its “Orchestrated Care” framework to better integrate automation in the care continuum. •
Samsung has made its Spatial Signage technology — which provides glasses-free, 3D visual content — available in the U.S.
RingCentral announced a “voice-first, omnichannel AI agent platform” that is meant to support healthcare contact centers. The company is also expanding its partnership with Spectrum Business to provide robust customer experience capabilities.
A recent Cohesity cybersecurity report found that although 49% of healthcare leaders were confident in their security strategy and operational resilience, 94% of organizations have paid a ransom in a cyberattack.
Ergotron is expanding its RhythmConnect fleet management software and Mosaic workstations.
PointClickCare has launched an AI-powered feature “designed to give health plans timely clinical intelligence within 24 hours of hospital discharge.”
Fujifilm has unveiled its latest enterprise imaging solutions integrated with AI.
Ochsner Health has turned to CLEAR to help with securing digital patient access.
Revenue cycle management platform FinThrive has also expanded its agentic AI capabilities.

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Specialties Get an AI Boost

Bill Lacy, senior vice president for medical informatics global business at Fujifilm Healthcare Americas, discussed the impact of AI in medical imaging workflows.

Q: Where are you seeing measurable improvements in workflow efficiency today?

LACY: We see AI as a tool that will allow radiologists to be faster, more efficient and ultimately improve the quality of care. It's going to allow for precision medicine because it's going to steer them toward what's most important related to patient care. AI will also take away a lot of the mundane things that radiologists deal with. It can allow the radiologists to spend most of their time on the most important cases, the most important disease-specific areas.

Q: For smaller hospitals or health systems, implementing advanced enterprise imaging platforms can be expensive and complex. What are the biggest barriers to adoption? Is it cost? IT infrastructure? Training? Or something else?

LACY: One of the big changes that is allowing for smaller health systems to adopt enterprise imaging and AI is cloud. Whether you're a smaller organization or a larger one, managing your own data centers, and the hardware and the network involved in that, is becoming very costly. Cloud has really opened the door for smaller organizations to more effectively deploy technology for enterprise imaging. The other thing that we focused on is converging our technology.

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Q: What operational challenges do hospitals encounter when trying to centralize imaging data, and how realistic is the promise of a truly unified imaging workflow?

LACY: Enterprise imaging is something that's been worked on now for over a decade. Most health systems are still at a point where they're centralizing radiology and cardiology. There's a challenge still today in converting those legacy workflows to get that imaging centralized. There are tools that we have developed in the vendor-neutral archive to really allow, outside of radiology and cardiology, for connectivity to departments that are using digital cameras or otherwise capturing and storing images.

(Sara Osberger, executive director of marketing for enterprise imaging at Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation, added that the right experienced partner can help healthcare organizations improve standardizations around imaging and work closely to engage clinicians so that imaging solutions add value to their workflows.)

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