HOUSTON SUMMIT AGENDA
Where Innovation, Digital Health, & Technology Meet
*This is a drafted schedule and subject to change.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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8:00 AM | Pick up your badge, grab a bite to eat, meet the sponsors and network with fellow attendees. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:50 AM | We are beyond thrilled to be back in 2025! This year's Summit is going to rock. Hear from the Healthcare Innovation Summits Director as he outlines the day of awesomeness and how to get the most out of your Summit experience. Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief - Healthcare Innovation David Silverstone, Sales Director - Healthcare Innovation Summit Series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Join us for a lively discussion of how senior leaders of hospitals and health systems need to position themselves for the healthcare operational landscape of the future, with industry leaders who understand where the landscape is headed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | What are the opportunities to improve the orchestration of processes in the emergency department? A provider leader and a leader from X by 2 will describe the issues at hand, and how providers are addressing those issues, in order to improve processes and patient outcomes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Nora Cox, CEO of the Texas eHealth Alliance, and one of the state’s most prominent healthcare policy leaders, will share with the audience the latest developments in Texas around digital health and interoperability policy, Medicaid policy, and all related issues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM | Grab a beverage, meet the sponsors and network with fellow attendees. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:10 AM - 11:15 AM | In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Taylor Beery, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the Nashville-based Imagine Pediatrics will explain his organization’s unique model for the care management of pediatric patients with special needs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Industry Partner Spotlights feature engaging, passionate speakers whose talks expose new ideas in healthcare that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to current and future industry trends. Presentations will explore novel and counterintuitive approaches to solving the many complex problems facing our health system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:05 PM - 1:40 PM | Jaren Day, Research Director for Cybersecurity at KLAS Research, will present KLAS’s latest findings on cybersecurity concerns and preparedness in hospitals and health systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:40 PM - 1:45 PM | In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:45 PM - 2:40 PM | Industry leader David Finn will lead a panel discussion around the biggest threats facing the leaders of patient care organizations in a moment in which cyber threats are intensifying, and the panel will discuss which advanced incident response strategies are working in patient care organizations nationwide. David Finn, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, Principal Owner - Cyber Health Integrity Gordon Groschl, CISO and Director of Healthcare Technology Management - Texas Children's Hospital Jeffrey Vinson, Senior Vice President-Chief Cyber & Information Security Officer - Harris Health System Randy Yates, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer - Memorial-Hermann Hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM | Grab a beverage, meet the sponsors and network with fellow attendees. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:10 PM - 3:15 PM | In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Matthew Thompson, M.D., Founder and CEO of Telescope Health of Jacksonville, Florida, will share with the audience the pioneering breakthrough that he and his colleagues at Telescope Health have created, through a medical model that has dramatically lowered ED utilization while creating longitudinal care management for entire communities’ uninsured populations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Industry Partner Spotlights feature engaging, passionate speakers whose talks expose new ideas in healthcare that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to current and future industry trends. Presentations will explore novel and counterintuitive approaches to solving the many complex problems facing our health system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Sepsis: Breakthroughs That Are Making All the Difference Vitaly Herasevich, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, will share insights around what is being learned from the development of predictive analytics, combined with real-time EHR data, to improve the early detection of the emergence of sepsis. |