Where Health System Leaders Benchmark, Decide, and Build What's Next

HLTH USA 2026 brings together the executives, clinicians, and operators navigating care’s structural transformation — to hear from peers who are further along, evaluate solutions in a room full of real buyers, and leave with sharper strategy than they arrived with.

What Attending Gets You

Peer conversations you can't get anywhere else.

Direct access to CMOs, CIOs, CNOs, and clinical leaders from peer health systems, in roundtables, networking sessions, and the kind of candid hallway conversations where real strategy gets shared.

Sessions built around the problems on your desk right now.

Every session on the HLTH USA agenda addresses challenges health system leaders are actively navigating, AI governance, workforce, value-based care, ambient documentation, and more. Practical and peer-led.

A curated vendor market, without the cold calls.

Pre-vetted 1:1 meetings with solution providers matched to your challenges via Market Connect. Designed specifically for hospitals and health systems. Qualify to participate and your pass is free!

A read on where the whole market is heading.

 
Payers, policymakers, investors, and vendors are all here. The cross-sector conversations happening across four days give health system leaders an unfiltered view of how every part of the ecosystem is responding to the same changes.

Who You Can Expect Onsite

AdventHealth
Advocate Health
Ascension
Atrium Health
Banner Health
Baylor Scott & White
BJC HealthCare
Cedars-Sinai
Cleveland Clinic
Duke Health
Emory Healthcare
Geisinger
HCA Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Kaiser Permanente
Mayo Clinic
Northwell Health
Northwestern Medicine
NYU Langone
OSF Healthcare

Topics Covered

Less Clicking, More Caring: Ambient AI and the New Era of Documentation

Featuring speakers from Ardent Health, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Kaiser Permanente, this session covered how ambient AI is taking on the documentation grind — helping nurses and physicians focus on patient care, streamlining workflows, supporting decision-making, and recovering lost revenue with real-time coding. The session also addressed how to build trust, win executive buy-in, and navigate privacy concerns. Watch Now

Thoughtful Change Management: The Catalyst for AI-Enabled Nursing Practices

Featuring speakers from GW University Hospital, the American Nurses Association, Cedars-Sinai, and Mercy, this session explored how AI-enabled tools are reshaping nursing workflows and driving organizational impact, and why successful adoption depends on thoughtful change management, not just the technology. Watch Now

Primary Care Reimagined: Powering the Future of Health

Advocate Health explored how primary care is stepping into a new role — leading innovation in care delivery, digital health integration, and value-based transformation. From AI-supported workflows to novel payment models, the session presented real-world examples and a new vision for primary care as a high-tech, high-touch platform for health equity and access. Watch Now

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Hear From Past Attendees

"This program has given us a lot of options as to where to look next. There are a lot of opportunities there."
Senior Program Manager Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
"Every year that I come out to HLTH and ViVE, the conversation changes a little bit. It evolves, and it's always so cool to hear the evolution of the space."
Director and Section Head Behavioral HealthCleveland Clinic
"Each year there is at least one company that we have a meeting with and goes all the way through to implementation and commercial contracts."
AI Ventures Innovation LeadMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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