HealthMarch 02, 2026

HIMSS 2026: Trusted clinical AI shaping care delivery

Key Takeaways

  • Validated AI tools enhance healthcare workflows by integrating trusted, evidence-based content for confident decision-making.
  • Shadow AI usage highlights the need for approved tools that reduce clinician burden and improve efficiency.
  • Embedding clinical intelligence into digital workflows transforms care delivery and accelerates platform adoption.
Building tomorrow’s care by championing responsible AI, supporting the medication intelligence lifecycle, and integrating clinical intelligence into technology workflows.

The next generation of healthcare leaders must effectively advance care delivery through digital tools and modern workflows without compromising quality.

Wolters Kluwer is ready to support the next wave of healthcare professionals by uniting our decades-long devotion to providing rigorously validated, evidence-based content clinicians know they can trust with a forward-thinking commitment to digital and AI-powered innovations. We’re returning to the annual HIMSS conference to share our vision for how to set the standard for AI-powered decision support and workflow integration and to learn about your goals for the future of healthcare technology.

Setting the standard for AI: Evidence-based guidance and agent-ready structure

When it comes to AI use, healthcare has been one of the quicker industries to employ new technologies, adopting AI tools at more than twice the rate of other industries.

While there is a lot to be gained from AI-powered tools, it is essential for healthcare leaders and clinical users to understand the importance of AI validation and be confident in the tools they’re using. At HIMSS, our experts will be discussing AI validation and giving demonstrations of UpToDate® Expert AI, our purpose-built clinical AI solution. By integrating industry-leading, peer-reviewed content into AI-powered digital tools, every insight is grounded in the latest research and clinical best practices. This helps professionals throughout the healthcare ecosystem be confident they are relying on the same trusted evidence they have depended on for decades, while also benefiting from modern, intelligent experiences tailored to today’s care environments.

Also at HIMSS, we will debut, Medi-Span® Expert AI, built to support intelligent medication workflows in the AI era. To move medication workflows forward responsibly, healthcare leaders need a reliable foundation that combines trusted drug knowledge, regulatory awareness, and advanced decision logic — designed from the outset to support AI-driven applications. This foundation must deliver agent-ready content and tools that allow organizations to build medication workflows with confidence, knowing AI recommendations are grounded in industry-leading drug data and knowledge from Medi Span. Our newest Model Context Protocol service delivers the structured and evidence-based medication intelligence layer that AI agents need for appropriate medication decision-making.

Understanding AI attitudes and what drives clinician behavior

As interest in AI is booming, healthcare leaders need to stay aware and ahead of their clinicians’ desire to use the tech to speed up administrative workflows.

An industry survey revealed that 58% of frontline health system staff have used generic, free AI tools for work at least once a month, with 39% using generic AI weekly or more. This use of unofficial or unapproved “shadow AI” resources stems from clinicians’ unfulfilled need to reduce cognitive burden and get back to direct patient care sooner. Wolters Kluwer Health sponsored an online survey among 518 full-time healthcare providers and administrators on their perceived usage of AI tools and uncovered more details: When respondents were asked why they used AI tools that weren’t approved by their organization, 48% said it was due to a lack of available approved tools, and 25% said they wanted a faster workflow.

At HIMSS, our experts will be diving into our research on shadow AI and how it may be affecting your organization. In this era of rapid AI advancement, we are mitigating the risks of ungoverned shadow AI by establishing a Clinical Intelligence Model that outlines the intersection of human experts, evidence, and technology. For your organization, this means leveraging AI that is built on a foundation of trusted, evidence-based content, so you can offer your teams responsible, approved technology integration that enhances clinical judgment and helps improve patient outcomes across your organization.

Clinical intelligence tailored to today’s care environment

Digital health technology developers are discovering that by integrating proven, trustworthy evidence and clinical guidance seamlessly into workflows, their solutions can have a transformative effect across healthcare, reducing clinician administrative burden and delivering meaningful ROI.

UpToDate® Connect digital health API is helping developers embed clinical intelligence directly into their solutions, reducing friction and enhancing efficiency. Learn from our specialists at HIMSS how UpToDate Connect can help you build a clinician-centered platform that aligns with modern healthcare needs and accelerates platform adoption by offering trusted resources clinicians already know and trust.

HIMSS 2026: Powering the future of healthcare with trusted clinical AI

At HIMSS 2026, Wolters Kluwer highlighted our commitment to supporting the next wave of healthcare professionals by providing cutting-edge tools that align with modern workflows and expectations. We demonstrated AI-driven solutions built on a foundation of trusted, evidence-based content so organizations can move faster with confidence while helping improve patient safety. See the highlights.

See The Highlights from HIMSS 2026
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