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This Advanced Provider Practice (APP) Week, HIMSS is proud to launch the HIMSS Advanced Practice Provider Task Force, creating new opportunities for APPs to engage with HIMSS year-round and help shape the future of digitally enabled care.

Co-chaired by Rhiannon Doherty, DHA, APRN, PMHNP-BC, CHCIO, and Shanetia Avinger, DNP, MBA, MHA, APRN, FNP-C, the task force will elevate APP perspectives across HIMSS thought leadership, advocacy, resources and the HIMSS Global Health Conference.

It is another way HIMSS 365 connects members with opportunities to contribute their expertise, influence the conversation and advance health throughout the year. Learn more about HIMSS membership: https://bit.ly/4AyXI0i

What’s holding digital health back in Europe?

The Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe (DHAGE) reveals the critical gaps holding transformation back, from governance and workforce readiness to interoperability and AI preparedness.

Read the DHAGE 2026 report for the findings and priorities for action.

https://bit.ly/3V9cUkB

Future-ready organizations develop leaders before the next big challenge arrives.

HIMSS Executive Connect helps current and emerging healthcare executives build the leadership capability, digital fluency and peer perspective to navigate change, take on greater responsibility and help organizations prepare for what’s next.

The next cohorts begin in November. Explore Executive Connect: bit.ly/4hICYvz

What happens when patients become innovators?

The latest thought leadership from HIMSSCast spotlights Professor Pedro Oliveira, who explores how patients and caregivers are developing solutions when existing approaches fall short, and what their ingenuity can teach us about the future of virtual care.

Learn how healthcare organisations can embrace patient innovation, unlock new ideas, and create pathways to validate and scale impactful solutions.

https://bit.ly/4dOHPcc

HIMSS brings together global members all united by one goal: to accelerate healthcare transformation.

Transformation doesn’t happen overnight. Whether you take a path of incremental or disruptive improvements, learn, grow, connect, and gain momentum with HIMSS all year.

We’re proud to unite and support passionate and talented minds shaping the future. Join us as a member: https://bit.ly/4cRYmMe

We’re proud to welcome our incoming HIMSS Americas Advisory Board members and look forward to the perspectives, experience and leadership they’ll bring to our community.

We also extend our thanks to our outgoing board members for their leadership, expertise and commitment to HIMSS.

Learn more about HIMSS: https://bit.ly/4cSWxi1

We’re excited to welcome four new members to our Board of Directors: Iain Buchan, Donna M. Roach, Thomas Kiesau, and Sandeep Dadlani.

They bring deep expertise in healthcare, technology, public health, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.

Read more about our board members and their work in support of the HIMSS mission: https://bit.ly/4rfmJcF

What if healthcare AI were built around the patient, not the health system?

On The Big Unlock, HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer Dr. Anne Snowdon explores what it will take to make that possible, from stronger evidence and AI-ready workforces to connected data that follows patients across their care.

She also makes the case for giving people trusted AI tools that help them understand their health, make informed decisions and stay meaningfully connected to their care teams.

Hear Dr. Snowdon's perspective on where healthcare AI needs to go next: https://bit.ly/4dEkGsW

Hear from the people advancing digital health across the UK.

The HIMSS Digital Maturity Forum will bring NHS leaders, frontline clinicians and digital health experts together in London on October 8 to share what they’re learning, what’s working and where opportunities remain.

Expect practical perspectives and ideas you can take back to your own organisation as you work to strengthen digital maturity and improve care.

Explore the programme: https://bit.ly/3UIklPw

Strong virtual nursing programs are built around people, workflows, and care delivery.

Join virtual care operations leaders on September 17 for a practical discussion on staffing models, workflows, workforce adoption, and performance measures that help make virtual nursing sustainable.

Hear lessons learned from the people doing the work and take away strategies you can apply to your own program.

Reserve your spot: https://bit.ly/4yyrDUA