The experts transforming healthcare, in the room with you.

Invited to the room·Evidence tier B·Reviewed 2026-10

Microsoft's ambient documentation and clinical assistant, the successor to Nuance DAX, inside the Microsoft stack.

Why it matters. Mount Sinai Health System began deploying Dragon Copilot in select departments after a multi-vendor evaluation, with systemwide expansion planned for 2026, as HIT Consultant reported in November 2025. Microsoft says more than 100,000 clinicians rely on Dragon Copilot in daily practice, quoting executives at Cooper University Health Care, Mercy, Sentara Health and URMC (company statement, March 2026). No independent adoption figure or KLAS score was found.

Who they bring to the room. Dragon Copilot clinical specialists through the Microsoft partner program, for members already on Microsoft 365.

For hospitals and health systems; physician groups and multi-location practices.

Microsoft platform; see above.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Ambient scribe for practices of every size, including specialty and wellness clinics, with a free tier.

Why it matters. Heidi debuted in Best in KLAS 2026 as a newly rated ambient speech vendor with a 93.1 out of 100 overall score, above the category average, a figure confirmed on the company's awards page (company statement, February 2026). The independent context is the same KLAS report in which Abridge won the category at 94.7. Heidi's free tier makes it the low-cost first step for independent practices and med spas.

Who they bring to the room. Practice onboarding specialists who can stand up a small specialty or wellness clinic in a Lab session.

For physician groups and multi-location practices; wellness, aesthetics and longevity practices.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Voice AI agents for specialty practice phone lines, scheduling into the practice system.

Why it matters. Assort raised $120 million at a $1.2 billion valuation in June 2026 to expand its patient access platform, with John Muir Health implementing it across Epic and athenahealth, as HLTH reported. In October 2026 Nextech, the specialty EHR, integrated Assort into its practice products; the company cites more than 300 million specialty patient interactions (company figures).

Who they bring to the room. Specialty practice implementation leads who can show a live phone line on a practice's own call types.

For physician groups and multi-location practices; wellness, aesthetics and longevity practices.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

AI agents for patient communication across voice, text and email, with production evaluations on real call types.

Why it matters. EliseAI raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation in September 2026, co-led by a16z and Bessemer, with a healthcare division serving specialty physician groups and ambulatory clinics for referral intake, scheduling, eligibility checks and follow-up, as HIT Consultant reported. Through the Nextech partnership it reports more than 20 million patient conversations a month (company figures).

Who they bring to the room. The team that publishes production evaluations on real call types, the standard every voice vendor should meet.

For physician groups and multi-location practices; hospitals and health systems.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Prior authorization intelligence for payers and the providers who work with them, aligned to the CMS electronic prior authorization push.

Why it matters. Cohere Health raised a $90 million Series C led by Temasek in May 2025 to extend its prior authorization AI into care management, as Fierce Healthcare reported, and says it was named in Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle for U.S. Healthcare Payers for a fifth consecutive year, with 85 percent of authorization requests approved in real time (company statement).

Who they bring to the room. Payer-side clinical and product leads who can explain what an electronic prior authorization decision looks like from both sides.

For health plans and payers; hospitals and health systems.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Generative AI for coding and revenue cycle operations inside the EHR.

Why it matters. In October 2026 AKASA launched an autonomous inpatient coding and clinical documentation platform; Cleveland Clinic has deployed its prebill review and Nebraska Methodist is an early adopter, with clients representing more than $180 billion in net patient revenue, as HIT Consultant reported. The company says blinded third-party evaluations matched or beat expert coders on MS-DRG assignment (company-reported).

Who they bring to the room. Coding and CDI leads who show the human review record alongside the model's output.

For hospitals and health systems.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

AI-powered care coordination, first in stroke, now across cardiology and other service lines.

Why it matters. A peer-reviewed meta-analysis of twelve studies and 15,595 patients in Translational Stroke Research (May 2025) found Viz.ai large vessel occlusion detection significantly shortened door-to-groin, CT angiography-to-thrombectomy and door-in-door-out times and raised post-transfer thrombectomy rates, while 90-day functional outcome and mortality improvements were not statistically significant. At Adventist Health and Rideout, Viz.ai with standardized transfer protocols cut door-in-door-out time 44 percent, from 202 to 113 minutes, per a study presented at ISC 2026, as AuntMinnie reported.

Who they bring to the room. Stroke and cardiology program coordinators with the time-to-treatment data; the clearest evidence-backed story in clinical AI.

For hospitals and health systems.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Clinical AI co-pilot for diagnosis support and case management, co-developed tools with Sentara Health.

Why it matters. Sentara Health, twelve hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina, deployed a case management AI co-developed with Regard after evaluating more than a hundred AI technologies, estimating it could save nearly 90,000 hours if expanded across acute and ambulatory care, a projection rather than a measured result (health system statement via Business Wire, October 20, 2026). Fierce Healthcare covered the same deployment.

Who they bring to the room. Clinical reasoning product leads and a Sentara case management leader to say what the projection has become.

For hospitals and health systems.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

AI for frontline leaders: nurse manager workflows, recognition and retention signals.

Why it matters. Ascend Learning acquired Laudio in September 2025; Laudio reports serving thousands of frontline leaders who manage more than 300,000 frontline staff, as Healthcare Innovation reported. A Laudio and AONL analysis of 41,500 registered nurses found that nurses who earned a clinical ladder level in their first year had 91 percent two-year retention, a ten-point advantage (company statement, September 2026). No independent retention result for Laudio's own platform was found in the last eighteen months.

Who they bring to the room. Nurse manager workflow specialists with the AONL retention data; the CHRO and CNO lenses together.

For hospitals and health systems.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

EHR and cloud infrastructure for health systems, with AI agents inside the clinical workflow.

Why it matters. Oracle launched an AI-backed, voice-driven EHR for U.S. ambulatory providers with embedded agents in August 2025, with acute care planned for 2026, as Healthcare Dive reported. In September 2026 its Clinical AI Agent became available to U.S. nurses for voice chart search, structured charting and summaries, about two years after the physician launch, per Healthcare Dive; HIT Consultant named BayCare Health System as an early evaluator.

Who they bring to the room. Clinical AI agent product leads and a nursing informatics evaluator from a Florida health system.

For hospitals and health systems.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Healthcare cybersecurity platform; first in the 2026 Best in KLAS cybersecurity category.

Why it matters. Remedio's device posture management won 2026 Best in KLAS for Cybersecurity Solutions with an overall performance score of 96.8 out of 100 in the category's first year, per KLAS Research, confirmed in HIT Consultant's full winners list. The company was formerly GYTPOL.

Who they bring to the room. Device posture engineers who can show a hospital's clinical and administrative estate in one view, the CISO's first question.

For hospitals and health systems; physician groups and multi-location practices.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Endpoint and identity protection with a healthcare practice; a reference point for the CISO lens.

Why it matters. A JAMA Network Open study found that 759 of 2,232 U.S. hospitals, 34 percent, showed network service disruptions during the July 2024 CrowdStrike update failure, with 21.8 percent of affected services patient-facing; two years on, Healthcare Brew reported Mass General Brigham has hardened downtime procedures and CrowdStrike gave customers control over update timing and hired a chief resilience officer. In March 2026 CrowdStrike extended Falcon for XIoT to medical devices, saying it serves eight of the top ten healthcare organizations (company statement).

Who they bring to the room. Healthcare threat intelligence and resilience leads; the 2024 outage and what changed after it is the CISO lens's best case study.

For hospitals and health systems; physician groups and multi-location practices; health plans and payers.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Moxi, the autonomous hospital service robot that runs deliveries so nurses do not.

Why it matters. Moxi runs in more than 25 hospitals with about 100 robots and over 1.25 million tasks completed, as The Robot Report reported when Serve Robotics agreed to acquire Diligent in January 2026. Moxi 2.0 is rolling out at Endeavor Health, Providence Saint John's and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where CHLA reports more than 40,000 deliveries and over 16,000 staff transport hours saved, per The Robot Report in August 2026.

Who they bring to the room. Deployment leads with the nursing-time data from CHLA and Providence, and a Moxi on the floor for Demo Day.

For hospitals and health systems; senior living, home health and post-acute care.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Pharmacy automation and robotics across the medication supply chain.

Why it matters. Omnicell reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $312 million, up 7 percent year over year, with its chief executive citing strong health system interest in medication automation, the Titan XT cabinet and the OmniSphere platform (company statement). No independent 2026 outcome study was found; the 2026 Best in KLAS award for automated dispensing cabinets went to BD Pyxis.

Who they bring to the room. Pharmacy automation engineers who can map a hospital's medication supply chain end to end.

For hospitals and health systems; senior living, home health and post-acute care.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Robotic-arm assisted orthopedic surgery with AI planning.

Why it matters. Mako's global installed base passed 3,000 systems after record fourth-quarter 2025 placements driven by Mako 4, with more than two-thirds of U.S. knee and over one-third of U.S. hip procedures performed on Mako, as Zacks Equity Research reported from Stryker's earnings in January 2026. OrthoWorld reported Mako's strongest first quarter of installations in the first quarter of 2026.

Who they bring to the room. Orthopedic program and robotics specialists who can speak to planning, throughput and the surgeon's learning curve.

For hospitals and health systems; physician groups and multi-location practices.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

LightStrike disinfection robots for patient rooms and operating rooms.

Why it matters. Health Canada registered Xenex's LightStrike6 UV-C robot for Canadian healthcare facilities in January 2026, building on FDA authorization of LightStrike+ as a whole-room microbial reduction device (company statement). No independent clinical study or named deployment was found in the last eighteen months; the LAMP cluster-randomized trial in Clinical Infectious Diseases dates from 2024.

Who they bring to the room. Infection prevention specialists who can run a room turnover live.

For hospitals and health systems; senior living, home health and post-acute care; wellness, aesthetics and longevity practices.

Watching·Evidence tier C·Reviewed 2026-10

Client experience platform for premium aesthetics and wellness businesses.

Why it matters. Boulevard raised an $80 million Series D led by JMI Equity at about an $800 million valuation in July 2025, claiming 15 percent of the U.S. med spa market, more than 5,000 businesses and $5 billion in annual payments, as Crunchbase News reported. In April 2026 it launched in-platform ePrescribe for med spa clinicians, as the American Med Spa Association reported.

Who they bring to the room. Client experience leads from premium aesthetics practices who can walk through the first thirty seconds of a booking.

For wellness, aesthetics and longevity practices.