Emids Healthcare
Summit

April 15-16, 2026 | Nashville, TN

Join us in Nashville this April for the next chapter of the Emids Healthcare Summit, where industry leaders engage in meaningful discussions at the intersection of healthcare and technology, driving the industry forward.

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About the Summit

A peer forum where healthcare leaders and innovators converge to shape the future of health

Venue

Where Big Ideas Find Their Rhythm

Nashville, TN

The Bell Tower

Join us at one of Nashville’s most iconic event spaces. The Bell Tower offers an intimate setting where healthcare’s sharpest minds connect, collaborate, and chart what comes next.

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Who Attends

Join the Visionaries Shaping the Future of Healthcare

150+ Orgs Represented
$1.3 Trillion Revenue Represented
Top 8 Fortune 100 Healthcare Orgs

Agenda

Two Days. One Rhythm.

AI for efficiency. AI for velocity. AI for compliance. AI for growth. The world has been chasing them all — but separately. At the Emids Healthcare Summit, we unite them into one cohesive rhythm: Business Outcomes That Matter. Because in healthcare, efficiency without compliance is risky, velocity without context is chaos, and growth without empathy is hollow.

Efficiency & Velocity

AI That Accelerates with Purpose

How healthcare organizations achieve scale and speed without losing trust, context, or control.

Day one is about momentum — moving AI from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide engines of efficiency and growth. Through executive keynotes and candid panel discussions, leaders will share how they’re driving measurable revenue, reshaping talent strategy, and building trust in AI at scale.

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Registration

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Welcome Reception

1:00 PM – 1:15 PM

CEO Keynote

1:20 PM – 2:05 PM

Keynote AI at Scale: Turning Capability into Competitive Advantage

2:10 PM – 2:55 PM

Panel From Pilots to Revenue: AI for Growth

Healthcare organizations are saturated with AI pilots, but very few translate into sustained revenue or margin impact. This session focuses on how executives are shifting AI from experimentation to execution by anchoring use cases to growth levers such as member acquisition, retention, cost-to-serve reduction, and faster time to value. Leaders will explore how to prioritize AI investments that directly impact P&L, align product, operations, and technology teams around outcomes, and build repeatable commercialization models that turn AI into a durable growth engine rather than a series of disconnected proofs of concept.

Mahesh Bhatt

President, Markets, Emids

Marty Bonick

President & CEO, Ardent

Bob Darin

CEO, Blue Health Intelligence

Dan Michelson

Chief Executive Officer, RLDatix

Karen Carlson

Chief Operating Officer, Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM

Afternoon Break

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Panel Leading in the Age of AI: Culture, Talent, and Decision Rights

AI is forcing a leadership reset across healthcare, challenging traditional hierarchies, decision-making models, and talent strategies. This conversation examines how executives are redefining trust in a world where machines increasingly influence decisions, how they are attracting and retaining scarce AI and data talent, and how decision rights must evolve when humans and AI operate side by side. Leaders will share practical approaches to governance, accountability, and culture that enable speed and confidence without compromising ethics, compliance, or organizational clarity.

Lorraine Chapman

VP of UX Consulting, Emids

Russ Thomas

CEO, Availity

Vishal Dhanuka

Partner, Tech Practice Leader, Egon Zehnder

Lori Logan

President & CEO, NASCO

Harpaul Sambhi

Founder and CEO, Magical

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Panel Trust at Scale: AI for Compliance, Integrity, and Administrative Simplicity

Payment integrity and administrative complexity remain some of the most persistent cost and trust challenges in healthcare. This panel explores how AI is being applied at scale to detect fraud, waste, and abuse, streamline claims and prior authorization workflows, and reduce manual intervention while maintaining transparency and regulatory confidence. Executives will discuss how to balance automation with oversight, deploy AI responsibly in high-stakes financial processes, and build trust with providers, regulators, and members while materially lowering administrative burden.

David Box

Managing Partner, Strategic Accounts, Emids

Gaurav Khanna

VP & CIO, Pharmacy, Humana

Dinesh Kandanchatha

SVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Prime Therapeutics

Gregory Webb

CEO, HITRUST

Dr. Mona Siddiqui

SVP Home and Community Care, Highmark

6:30 PM – 11:30 PM

Dinner and Live Entertainment Summit: Off the Record

Compliance & Growth

Trust and Transformation at Scale

AI that earns the right to grow — responsibly, measurably, and with empathy.

Day two shifts from speed to substance. Morning roundtables put executives in facilitated peer-to-peer dialogue around the real challenges shaping healthcare today. Afternoon sessions examine how AI is reshaping the care continuum and what it takes to scale from five use cases to fifty.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast & Networking

9:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Roundtable Discussions Executive Roundtables: The Next Era of Trusted AI

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Morning Break

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Keynote Implementing AI at Scale in Healthcare

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM

Panel The Next Care Model: AI at the Care Continuum

AI is reshaping care delivery, but only when applied cohesively across the full care continuum. This session examines how leading organizations are using AI to improve access, personalize engagement, coordinate care, and support clinical decision-making without creating fragmented patient experiences. Executives will explore how to integrate AI across digital front doors, care management, and clinical operations to drive better outcomes, lower costs, and more human-centered care at scale.

Laura Schaumberg

SVP, Implementations and Forward Deployed Context Engineer, Emids

Sheila Yahyazadeh

Chief External Operations Officer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

Sumant Rao

EVP, Technology, Vatica – Cozeva Health

Anupriyo Chakravarti

Chief Technology & Product Officer, Verisma

Megan Callahan

CEO, Medical Review Institute of America (MRIOA)

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM

Panel The Operating System for AI: How You Scale from 5 Use Cases to 50

Scaling AI requires far more than data science talent or individual tools — it demands a new enterprise operating system. This panel focuses on the foundational capabilities healthcare organizations must build to scale AI responsibly and efficiently, including data platforms, interoperability, governance, security, and productized delivery models. Leaders will share lessons on how to move beyond one-off successes, avoid AI sprawl, and create an operating model where AI use cases compound in value over time instead of competing for attention and resources.