The main exhibition floor at the Venetian Convention & Expo Center officially opened its doors today, shifting the HIMSS26 energy from high-level preconference strategy directly into live, unscripted product demonstrations.
The major themes of the day centered on native EHR integration, the transition to multi-agent AI architecture, and hard financial ROI. Here is your daily wrap-up of the most significant announcements from Tuesday at HIMSS26.
The EHR Giants Arm Up: Native AI & Ambient Expansion
Epic Reaches 85% Adoption & Launches ‘Agent Factory’: Epic announced that 85% of its customer base is actively using its AI suite (Art, Penny, and Emmie). Moving toward custom autonomy, they launched Agent Factory—a visual builder for health systems to deploy custom AI agents—and Curiosity, a proprietary family of medical foundation models. They also reported massive ROI, including a 69% early lung cancer detection rate using “Art” to analyze incidental findings.
MEDITECH Embeds Ambient & Agentic Tools: MEDITECH debuted its native ambient listening tools built directly into the Expanse point-of-care apps. On the financial side, they launched Claim Denial Agents, an autonomous tool that researches the root cause of a denial and drafts evidence-based appeals using the patient’s chart.
Greenway Health Unveils ‘AI-by-Design’: Targeting the ambulatory market, Greenway launched Novare. Rather than layering AI on top of a legacy database, Novare was built around an AI engine, allowing for instant coding and prior authorizations during the visit. A 10-provider pilot practice reported saving 14,000 hours per year.
Zoom Infiltrates the Epic Workflow: Zoom announced that its Contact Center will be natively available in the Epic Toolbox by April 2026. Taking aim at the ambient scribe market, Zoom’s Clinical Note feature now automatically syncs AI-generated documentation directly into Epic Mobile Haiku and Hyperspace in under a minute.
R1 and Heidi Link Clinical to Financial: Revenue management giant R1 RCM partnered with ambient AI scribe Heidi. The partnership integrates Heidi’s clinical documentation directly into R1’s Phare Revenue Operating System, ensuring that AI-generated notes are instantly optimized for accurate coding, billing, and payer compliance at the point of care.
The Digital Front Door & Consumer Access
Samsung and b.well ‘Kill the Clipboard’: Samsung Health users can now securely download their longitudinal health records to their Galaxy smartphones using FHIR standards and CLEAR identity verification. b.well’s conversational AI, bailey™, translates the medical jargon, allowing patients to share their data directly with hospital EHRs—eliminating repetitive intake forms entirely.
Microsoft Copilot Becomes the Midnight Triage Nurse: A new Microsoft report analyzing 500,000 conversations revealed Copilot is handling 50 million health questions daily. Notably, queries spike late at night when clinics are closed, and 1 in 7 searches are conducted by the “sandwich generation” managing care for both children and aging parents.
- RingCentral Launches AIR Pro for Healthcare: RingCentral debuted a voice-first, omnichannel AI agent platform with over 80 EHR integrations. It acts as an autonomous digital front door, handling calls, verifying insurance, and scheduling appointments without live staff intervention.
- MD Live Earns NCQA Accreditation: Evernorth’s MD Live achieved NCQA Virtual Care Accreditation across all 50 states, validating its clinical quality and safety as it expands asynchronous E-Treatment for low-acuity issues.
Clinical Intelligence, Research & Diagnostics
Atropos Health Brings Real-World Evidence to Copilot: Atropos integrated its Evidence Agent with Microsoft Dragon Copilot. Now live at Stanford Medicine, the system ambiently listens to patient visits and proactively generates personalized, evidence-based clinical summaries from historical data directly within the EHR.
Mount Sinai Proves Multi-Agent AI is Superior: A study from Mount Sinai published in npj Health Systems revealed that distributing clinical tasks among multiple specialized AI “agents” (orchestrated by a central system) is up to 65 times more computationally efficient and drastically more accurate under heavy workloads than relying on a single, all-purpose AI model.
HeartBeam and Mount Sinai Pioneer AI-ECG: HeartBeam partnered with Mount Sinai to develop next-generation AI-ECG algorithms. By utilizing HeartBeam’s platform to capture longitudinal, 3D electrical heart activity from patients at home, they are building a massive data engine for predictive cardiology.
Visage Imaging Highlights Cloud-Native AI: Visage demonstrated rapid deployment capabilities for its Visage 7 CloudPACS, showcasing ultrafast web viewing, integrated digital pathology, and native, AI-powered radiology reporting directly inside the viewer.
The Autonomous Revenue Cycle & Data Infrastructure
Snowflake & Hakkoda Report on Interoperability: A new survey of 183 healthcare leaders found that 84.7% rate interoperability as a higher priority today than two years ago. The report concludes that scaling agentic AI for top use cases (admin workflows, coding, billing) is impossible without modern data sharing.
RevSpring Embeds Empathy into Billing: RevSpring launched SeatMate, a virtual agent that guides live billing staff with real-time, AI-driven prompts and customized payment plan recommendations to ensure sensitive financial conversations remain empathetic and compliant.
MediQuant Solves Archiving Clutter: MediQuant launched Clinical Summaries and an embedded DICOM viewer within its DataArk platform. This allows clinicians to instantly view actionable historical data and medical imaging without manually digging through legacy, archived EHRs.
Cognosos Automates the Final Footprint with RTLS: Cognosos launched encounter-sensing tags for its Real-Time Location System (RTLS). The tags use short-range interactions to automatically timestamp and log staff-to-patient interactions directly into the EHR, greatly reducing nursing documentation burden.
Medisolv Acquires Lilac Software: Quality data management leader Medisolv acquired Lilac Software to integrate AI-driven predictive analytics and Medicare Advantage Stars performance tracking into its value-based care platform.
Documo Joins PointClickCare: Documo integrated its AI-driven secure fax platform into the PointClickCare marketplace, automatically transforming unstructured, faxed documents into usable data for post-acute care workflows.
Nordic Refreshes Brand Identity: Consulting giant Nordic launched a new brand identity (“Singularly healthcare, infinitely insightful”), positioning itself as the critical strategic bridge for health systems struggling to implement this massive wave of new technology.
Specialty Care, Senior Living & Post-Acute Workflows
- Carrum Health and Virta Health Bridge GLP-1s and Surgery: Addressing the massive employer cost burden of weight-loss drugs, Carrum and Virta launched a coordinated pathway. Employees receive Virta’s nutrition counseling and GLP-1 management; if they successfully lower their BMI or require bariatric intervention, they are seamlessly routed to Carrum’s surgical Centers of Excellence.
- Inspiren Transforms Senior Living Safety: Inspiren showcased data from its Solera Senior Living deployment. By utilizing AI-powered proactive monitoring and virtual safety checks in memory care, the community saw a 48% reduction in falls and a 54% reduction in hospitalizations.
- Glooko Integrates with Roche CGM: Glooko announced its platform will integrate with the Roche Accu-Chek SmartGuide continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system in Europe, bringing predictive AI glucose insights into a unified dashboard for clinicians.
