Virtual Event for Hospitals, Health Systems, and Physician Leaders
Event Details
When: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Time: 1:00 – 4:30 pm ET
Where: Virtual Event
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Event Format
- 3-hour virtual program
- 6 sessions (30 minutes each)
- Moderated discussions by Healthcare NOW Radio hosts
- Built around real provider challenges and use cases
Speakers
Healthcare AI conversations are everywhere. But what does implementation actually look like inside hospitals, health systems, and physician practices today? As AI adoption accelerates, healthcare leaders are under increasing pressure to separate measurable value from market noise—and determine where AI can realistically improve workflows, operations, and decision-making today.
Join us on June 3 for AI in Action, a virtual event designed for healthcare executives, clinical leaders, IT decision-makers, and operational teams navigating the realities of AI adoption across the healthcare enterprise.
Through a series of fast-paced conversations with healthcare innovators and industry experts, we’ll explore practical AI applications already impacting:
- Clinical workflows and physician documentation
- Community pharmacy operations and productivity
- AI analytics and decision support
- Biotech innovation and precision medicine
- AI-powered search and digital experience
- CIO priorities, governance, and operational execution
This is not a future-state discussion. AI in Action focuses on the operational, clinical, and strategic realities healthcare leaders are facing right now.
Who Should Attend
Healthcare management, directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders from hospitals, health systems, and physician practices.
Agenda
1:30 – 2:00 Eastern: Productivity vs. Reality: What AI Actually Means for Community Pharmacies
Community pharmacies are under growing pressure to do more with fewer resources, and AI is increasingly being positioned as the solution. But where is it truly improving productivity, and where is the hype outpacing reality? In this session, nationally recognized pharmacy leader Harry Travis explores how AI is beginning to impact workflows, patient engagement, medication management, staffing efficiency, and business operations across community pharmacy settings. Attendees will gain a realistic view of where AI can create value today, along with the key questions pharmacy leaders should ask before investing in new AI-driven technologies.
2:00 – 2:30 Eastern: From Data to Decisions: Making AI Analytics Actually Actionable
Healthcare organizations are drowning in dashboards, reports, and data streams, yet many still struggle to turn insights into meaningful action. This session explores how AI-powered analytics is helping healthcare leaders move beyond passive reporting to faster, smarter decision-making across clinical, operational, and financial workflows. From predictive insights and workflow automation to real-time intelligence and data governance, attendees will gain a practical look at what it takes to make AI analytics truly actionable, measurable, and aligned with organizational priorities.
2:30 – 3:00 Eastern: From Discovery to Delivery: How AI Is Reshaping Biotech
AI is rapidly transforming the biotech landscape, accelerating everything from drug discovery and clinical research to precision medicine and patient engagement. In this forward-looking conversation, Dr. George Sledge, Chief Medical Officer at Caris Life Sciences, explores how AI is helping biotech organizations uncover new insights, streamline development pipelines, and bring innovations to market faster. Attendees will gain perspective on the evolving role of AI in life sciences, the challenges of integrating AI into research and clinical workflows, and what the next wave of AI-driven innovation could mean for the future of healthcare.
3:00 – 3:30 Eastern: AI is Raising the Stakes at the Digital Front Door
Healthcare’s digital front door is bleeding patients, and bad search is the biggest reason why. In this session, Chris Pace of SearchStax will unpack new research showing how frustrating site search drives abandonment, spills demand into the call center, and costs revenue before care can even begin. Chris will challenge the old search model that makes patients dig through links for vital information. then explain how AI-powered results reduce patient friction and deliver better conversion. Patients need smart answers: relevant results that deliver fast, trusted guidance and a clearer path to care.
3:30 – 4:00 Eastern: Beyond the AI Strategy: What Healthcare Leaders Should Do in the Next 90 Days
AI has rapidly moved from experimentation to operational priority, and healthcare technology leaders are under increasing pressure to turn strategy into measurable action. In this executive conversation, Justin Barnes moderates a discussion with Chris Paravate on what healthcare organizations should realistically be doing right now to move AI initiatives forward over the next 90 days.
4:00 – 4:30 Eastern: The Long View: Building a Health Organization Ready for the Next Decade of AI
What does it take to build a health organization that will still be running on a strong digital and AI foundation in five years, ten years, or twenty? In this closing conversation, John Henderson, Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Rady Children’s Health, takes the long view. Drawing on his work leading the digital integration of CHOC into Rady Children’s Health, launching private generative AI platforms to support clinical and administrative work, and building an AI-ready data infrastructure that reaches beyond the EHR, John shares what it actually takes to align your organization around a multi-year digital vision.
Moderators and Radio Hosts
Justin Barnes
Dr. Nick van Terheyden
Tom Foley
