About this Event
Healthcare organizations continue to face unprecedented operational, financial, workforce, cybersecurity, and technology challenges. Yet these same pressures are creating opportunities to modernize infrastructure, strengthen resilience, and accelerate digital transformation.
The HIMSS Central & Southern Ohio Chapter invites healthcare leaders, clinicians, technology professionals, researchers, and industry innovators to submit proposals for presentations at our Fall 2026 Conference. As the region's bridge to the HIMSS27 Global Health Conference & Exhibition, this event will explore how healthcare organizations can transform today's headwinds into tomorrow's competitive advantage through practical, measurable innovation.
This conference will focus on how provider organizations are leveraging cloud technologies, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, interoperability, modern data platforms, and operational excellence to improve care delivery, strengthen organizational resilience, reduce clinician burden, and achieve sustainable outcomes.
Agenda
🕑: 07:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Pushing Through the Headwinds: Building Resilient, Intelligent Healthcare
🕑: 07:00 AM - 08:20 AM
Registration, Breakfast and Sponsor Setup
🕑: 08:20 AM - 08:30 AM
Opening Remarks
Host: Ajay Sharma - Program Chair
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Morning Keynote:
Info: Leonardo Lozada, Chief Clinical Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health
🕑: 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM
Break
🕑: 09:40 AM - 10:40 AM
A1 - The Intelligent Nervous System of Care
Info: Phillip Stewart & Valerie Cook, The Christ Hospital
🕑: 10:40 AM - 10:50 AM
Break
🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
A2 - Leading thru Constraint: Building a Workforce That Can do More with Less
Info: Featured Speaker: Ira Grossman - Chief Technology Officer, MCPC
🕑: 09:40 AM - 10:40 AM
B1 - Digital Strategy & Cybersecurity
Info: Christopher Logan, Healthcare CISO, ZScaler
🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
B2 - AI That Works: A Practical Framework for Governance and Implementation
Info: Sunitha Cherukupally Medical Director, Clinical Informatics, MD, Andrew Narcelles MD, Medical Director, Clinical Informatics- OhioHealth
🕑: 09:40 AM - 10:40 AM
C1 - Where Compassion Meets Innovation: The Smart Room Story
Info: Gretchen Ross, Director of Health System Informatics, Anthony Terlecky, Technology Leader, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
C2 - Clinical AI in Practice
Info: David Cha, M.D. - Associate CMIO, Premier Health Partners
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Lunch, Networking, Sponsor Shout Out and Announcements
🕑: 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Keynote: Intelligent Healthcare: Looking to the Future
Info: Jeffrey Hoffman, M.D. - Chief Medical Information Officer, Nationwide Children's Hospital
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Break
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Panel: Leading Through the Headwinds: Lessons from Healthcare Leaders
Host: Moderator: Jeffrey Hoffman
Info: Jeffrey Hoffman, M.D., CMIO, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Leonardo Lozada, Chief Clinical Officer, BSMH, Anita Harris Brown, Chief Nursing Information Officer, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Andrea Darby, VP, IT Strategy & Architecture, OhioHealth
Event venue & nearby stays
The Conference Center at OCLC, 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, United States
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