Samantha Jacques, PhD, VP of clinical engineering at McLaren Health Care and vice chair of HSCC's Cybersecurity Working Group, explains why cyber resilience is a shared discipline and how Operation Vital Signs will test the sector’s coordinated response this July.

Brian Dilcher, MD, Associate CMIO and Director of Emergency Medicine Clinical Informatics at WVU Medicine, explains why token efficiency is becoming the central governance question for health systems as they begin building and pricing their own agents inside Epic's Agent Factory.

Gartner predicts AI coding costs will surpass the average developer's salary by 2028 as token consumption surges and consumption-based pricing spreads. Nitish Tyagi, senior principal analyst at Gartner, says a governed operating model is the only reliable check on runaway spend.

Jason Hill, MD, System Vice Chair, Hospital Medicine & Innovation at Ochsner Health, describes a decade-overdue documentation overhaul now live for every hospitalist across 46 hospitals. Automated smart texts assemble the record from orders and care delivered, with AI generating the hospital course, returning clinician time to the bedside.

Phil Englert, VP of Medical Device Security at H-ISAC, warns that legacy medical devices unsupported by manufacturers become critical failure points during cyber incidents, offering attackers persistent footholds. With vendors often unwilling or unable to restore them, he urges proactive lifecycle management, inventory, and replacement planning.

Ronald Fletcher, Information Services Privacy Specialist at Franciscan Health, walks through a cloud EHR migration that triggers a ransomware breach and OCR scrutiny. He explains that any change to how ePHI is stored or accessed demands a documented risk analysis.

John Lee, MD, emergency doc at Edward Hospital Naperville and Epic consultant, says healthcare is an infinite game that finite metrics cannot score. Deploying AI to optimize throughput and coding industrializes existing dysfunction. The design imperative is sorting friction and automating administrative drag while protecting the unbillable moments that constitute real care.

Stephon Proctor, PhD, Associate CHIO at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, traces how clinician expectations have evolved from directing chart queries to wanting AI that fuses patient context with medical knowledge. He predicts the eventual winners will build seamless end-to-end platforms where every capability works together cohesively.

Brian Dilcher, MD, Associate CMIO at WVU Medicine, examines how Abridge's mandatory enterprise contracts create a stronger PHI posture than free, NPI-based sign-up models, but cautions that secure data handling leaves recommendation integrity unresolved as payer partnerships and investor pressure grow.

George Jones, Regional Director – Healthcare at Netskope, traces failed zero trust efforts to its ambiguity as an architectural model and the visibility gaps created by SaaS, identity, and data sprawl. He positions complete traffic visibility and unified policy enforcement as the foundation for continuous verification across users, devices, and data.