HIMSS: Book Time with Dr. Sarah Inman
Hosted by Dr. Sarah Inman from Improv
HIMSS 2026 is right around the corner and unbelievably, it will be my seventh time attending, which feels worth shouting out because it really changes how you experience a conference like this.
There's a lot of pressure on healthcare leaders coming into HIMSS 2026. Leaders are no longer asking what is possible but instead what is provable, repeatable, and sustainable when regulators, surveyors, and boards are asking hard questions. We want/need to know how technology will have our backs when the questions start rolling in, and we expect the vendors showing up in Las Vegas to have the answers we seek.
With everything going on, I want to make sure I am available for conversations with healthcare leaders about AI governance, joint commission readiness, and the many other important topics.
If you are attending HIMSS this year, I hope you will book some one-on-one time or stop by to see me in the Ingram Micro's booth. Ask uncomfortable questions! Share what is not working in your organization and find out who is working on the next big idea that might help solve what is keeping you awake at night (or maybe spark the idea that could possibly do so).
The most valuable conversations rarely happen on stages or in perfectly scripted demos; they happen when people are willing to be really honest about where the cracks are and willing to talk about how to possibly fix them.
Seven years into this conference life, I am more convinced than ever that healthcare has no shortage of big ideas. What we do need is better execution and systems that support people instead of testing their endurance to the point of exhaustion and burnout; we already know how fast clinicians are walking away from the bedside.
