Your Databricks Guide to HIMSS26

We’re in full swing at HIMSS. Returning to Las Vegas once again, we’re incredibly excited to be a part of the show this year.

The healthcare AI conversation is shifting within our customers. We are moving past the era of generic generative AI experimentation and into the age of agentic AI at scale. Healthcare organizations are laser-focused on deploying AI to reduce administrative burden, deliver better patient outcomes via predictive analytics, and power real-time clinical action directly within provider workflows.

However, realizing this vision is fundamentally difficult. 95% of AI pilots never make it to production. The primary blocker isn't the technology itself, it's trust. In our highly regulated industry, there is zero tolerance for AI agents that hallucinate, leak PHI, or bypass strict governance. To be successful, healthcare leaders must leverage their own governed enterprise data to power these models, rather than relying on general data.

At HIMSS in Las Vegas, Databricks is showcasing how a unified data intelligence platform takes everything from conversational analytics to AI agents to apps from hype to impact.

Stop in and visit us at Booth #5453. 

What to Expect at the Databricks Booth

Through Thursday, we’re showcasing 5 real-world AI and agent demos, including: 

• Real-Time Hospital Operations Agent: Ingest FHIR, ask questions of your data with Databricks Genie & AI Agents and bring data intelligence back into the workflow where your clinical and operational teams work
• Clinical Coding Agent: Ask questions about ICD-10 codes, clinical documentation, or your unique coding guidelines, reducing the manual burden for your teams with Databricks Genie.
• Prior Authorization for Providers: Reduce the manual burden for your provider teams by extracting text from PDFs, bring data in from the EHR, and automatically fill out a prior authorization form with Agent Bricks.
• Clinical Image Analysis with DICOM: Ingest millions of images with Databricks Pixels x NVIDIA MONAI open source framework to accelerate clinical research insights with AI.
• Care Manager Agent: Care managers can manage their caseload, prepare for upcoming calls, track their notes during calls, and product post-call documentation with Databricks Genie.

We also have 18+ theater presentations featuring pioneering customers and partners.

Tuesday, March 10

Yesterday, we had incredible sessions from data leaders spanning Capital One, IHH Healthcare, Redox, NVIDIA, Slalom, NYU Langone Health, and UMC Utrecht & Philips.

Wednesday, March 11

Starting at 10:00 AM today at the Databricks booth theater, we’ll hear from Intermountain Health & R1 RCM, Northwestern Medicine, Fivetran, UK HealthCare & Prominence Advisors, American Medical Association (AMA), Health Catalyst, Kythera Labs, and Innovaccer.

To give you a quick preview: 

• 10:00AM: Intermountain Health & R1 RCM present how they modernized revenue cycle data sharing by adopting Databricks Delta Sharing for a governed, table-level sharing ecosystem, replacing brittle file pipelines, saving FTEs, and driving higher revenue capture.
• 11:00AM: Northwestern Medicine shares their journey to a unified, governed data platform, accelerating AI-driven insights across clinical research and hospital operations for improved patient outcomes.
• 12:00PM: Fivetran & Databricks demo how automated data integration from Epic Clarity combined with lakehouse analytics create end-to-end referral visibility and improve patient access using Databricks Genie and AI Agents.
• 1:00PM: UK HealthCare & Prominence Advisors discuss their MLOps infrastructure on Azure Databricks, enabling repeatable and auditable clinical ML efforts for C-section and pediatric sepsis use cases with continuous deployment and monitoring.
• 2:00PM: American Medical Association (AMA) is transforming their authoritative medical content into "CPT Intelligence" using Databricks, Vector Search, and RAG to create a unified API for guiding physicians.
• 3:00PM: Health Catalyst discusses Cost Intelligence on Databricks to help healthcare systems move beyond simple cost visibility by using AI and trained improvement models to rapidly identify actionable, provider-level cost variations. This platform transforms traditional, slow manual analysis into an automated process that empowers clinicians and financial teams to quickly implement defensible, measurable cost-saving improvements.
• 4:00PM: Kythera Labs will discuss how autonomous AI agents on a governed Databricks lakehouse can reason across clinical, claims, and operational data to investigate leakage and identify revenue recovery opportunities.
• 4:30PM: Innovaccer explores how Gravity, in partnership with Databricks, transforms modern lakehouse architecture into autonomous, agentic workflows, focusing on building an AI-ready data foundation and driving measurable ROI.

If you're stopping in at the Microsoft booth (#2812), check out the Azure Databricks demo station for our Real-Time Hospital Operations agent demo! 

Thursday, March 12

Close out your HIMSS experience with powerful sessions in the Databricks theater from the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, Lakebase, and Abacus Insights.

• 10:00AM: CareQuest Institute for Oral Health introduces their Health Data Exchange, a Databricks-powered portal that centralizes various health data and enables secure, governed cross-organization collaboration.
• 11:00AM: Databricks healthcare technical leadership will explore how unifying the data ecosystem accelerates time-to-value by deploying intelligent, AI-assisted workflows like predictive patient intake and real-time clinical dashboards with Databricks Lakebase.
• 12:00PM: Abacus Insights discusses the importance of a context-aware, reusable data foundation on Databricks for payer AI initiatives, accelerating outcomes in areas like Total Cost of Care and Stars/HEDIS performance.

Let's Connect in Vegas!

Don't miss the opportunity to see how Databricks is transforming healthcare operations.

👉 Get involved today: Check out our theater schedule, book a 1:1 meeting with our healthcare experts, and drop into booth 5453!

See you on the show floor!