Register Your Interest — Why 80% of Healthcare Data Still Goes Unused — and How Leaders Are Unlocking It Safely

NOTE: Only qualified HIMSS26 attendees who are logged in to their HIMSS26 Account will be able to register their interest for this session.

Healthcare organizations are sitting on vast amounts of valuable data, yet most of it remains unused, not because of a lack of ambition, but because of privacy risk, regulatory pressure, and the complexity of unstructured information.

In this HIMSS26 brunch briefing, we will walk through why clinical notes, transcripts, PDFs, and scanned documents remain off-limits to analytics and AI, and how forward-looking health systems are changing that. The session will cover emerging AI risks, why legacy and LLM-based approaches fall short, and what a privacy-by-design data strategy looks like in practice.

Attendees will leave with a clear, practical understanding of how to unlock data for AI, research, and operational improvement without increasing compliance risk or jeopardizing patient trust.