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November 9-10, 2026 | DeVos Place | Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Monday, November 9 | 2 - 3:30 PM
About the Session:
AI & Rural Health: Bridging the Digital Divide
At the C3 Tech Summit, HIMSS Michigan will explore how AI is helping address real challenges in rural and underserved healthcare communities. The conversation will look at areas such as telehealth, ambient listening, virtual patient monitoring, and access to care. Healthcare and technology leaders will share what they’re seeing firsthand and where AI may have a meaningful role in closing gaps across Michigan. Attendees will also have time to join the conversation, ask questions, and share their own experiences with rural health.
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Who Should Attend?
The healthcare experience is designed for leaders responsible for decisions across technology, operations, security, infrastructure, patient experience, and transformation, including:
- CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and CMIOs
- Chief Digital and Transformation Officers
- VPs and Directors of IT
- Healthcare cybersecurity leaders
- Infrastructure and cloud leaders
- Network and telecom leaders
- Patient experience and contact-center executives
- Digital health leaders
- Technology procurement and sourcing teams
- Healthcare operations leaders
- IT managers responsible for enterprise platforms and services
Healthcare Technology Has Never Carried More Responsibility
Healthcare IT leaders are being asked to modernize while protecting what cannot fail.
Patient access needs to improve. AI initiatives need governance. Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve. Clinical and administrative systems must remain available. Contact centers need to do more with fewer resources. Networks must support increasingly distributed care environments. And every new technology decision introduces another conversation about security, privacy, integration, and compliance.
The C3 Tech Summit creates a place to work through those decisions with people who understand the stakes.
Not through endless product pitches.
Through peer conversations, focused sessions, technology exploration, and access to experts working across the healthcare technology ecosystem.
Continue the Healthcare IT Conversations That Matter
Build on Your Michigan HIMSS Connections
C3 Technology Advisors continues to connect with Michigan’s healthcare IT community through HIMSS, bringing healthcare and technology leaders together for peer networking and conversations around patient experience, operational efficiency, AI, and emerging technologies.
At the C3 Tech Summit, those conversations continue. Reconnect with HIMSS peers, expand your healthcare technology network, and compare priorities with leaders navigating many of the same challenges.
Five9 offers healthcare contact-center capabilities including omnichannel engagement, AI agents, workforce engagement, and integrations with Epic and other EHR platforms. Five9 states that it enters into BAAs with qualifying covered-entity and business-associate customers and maintains safeguards for PHI.
Authenticx is purpose-built for healthcare and uses AI-powered conversation intelligence to analyze patient and member interactions for experience, operational, safety, and compliance signals. Its platform includes healthcare-focused privacy and security controls and HIPAA-related capabilities.
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