Disruptive Innovators: Champions of Digital Business · 2026-04-26 · 1h 20m
In a special live episode recorded on the floor of HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas, David Wright sits down with four healthcare technology leaders to capture a snapshot of where healthcare innovation stands right now. The guests are Benjiman Jennings, Assistant Program Manager of PEO DHMS; Dustin Hufford, Senior VP and CIO of Cooper University Health Care; Maria Sexton, Senior VP and CIO of UT Medical; and Michael Hasselberg, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer of Nebraska Medicine. KEY TAKEAWAYS 00:00:00 Introduction. 00:06:30 Benjiman Jennings describes how cybersecurity requirements and budget instability compound inside government healthcare IT, creating a uniquely constrained environment for innovation. 00:14:00 Solving today’s problems creates tomorrow’s problems - and the real leverage is building for challenges five years out. 00:27:00 Dustin Hufford discusses foundational AI priorities: a cloud data lake, native AI development and a Chief AI Officer hire to coordinate maturation. 00:33:00 Consolidating patient data at health system level is impractical at scale, and there is a case for patient-held data with AI summarisation.
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