WEDI Winter Forum 2026: The Promise and Reality of Health IT in Improving the Patient Journey
Streaming will also be available via Zoom
A new event, spotlighting how regulations, technology, and innovation is improving the patient experience.
WEDI’s Winter Forum brings together the nation’s leading healthcare innovators, policymakers, providers, payers, technology organizations, and patient advocates to explore how health IT policy, data-centric technology, and digital innovation are reshaping the patient experience. This year’s forum will spotlight the tools, standards, and strategies that are enabling a more connected, transparent, and patient-empowered healthcare ecosystem.
Through a series of expert-led discussions, attendees will examine how emerging federal policies and regulations—such as 0057, HTI-4, and evolving interoperability rules—are setting the stage for more person-centered design and data access. Sessions on AI, automation, and innovative digital tools will showcase how organizations are standardizing care, personalizing patient outreach, and reducing administrative burdens. The forum will also delve into the technologies giving patients greater control over their health information, including portals, apps, APIs, and real-world examples of interoperability in action.
The program will highlight practical approaches for streamlining the patient journey, from modernizing prior authorization and designing intuitive digital front doors to improving price transparency and eligibility processes. Finally, the event will explore the strategic, equity-focused, and future-oriented dimensions of patient experience—featuring conversations on accessibility, measuring what truly matters, and the innovations and policies needed to move healthcare forward.
Designed for leaders who want to drive meaningful change, WEDI’s Winter Forum is a unique opportunity to engage with the people and ideas shaping the next generation of patient-centered care.
Our themes over the 1.5 day event will include:
- Policy and Regulation: Setting the Stage
- Beyond Compliance: HTI-4 and CMS -0057F Improving the Patient Journey
- Designing Health IT with People at the Center
- Innovation and Emerging Tech for Improved Patient Engagement and Empowerment
- AI and Automation to Improve the Patient Experience
- Standardizing Care, Personalizing Outreach, and Reducing Administrative Burdens
- Chatbots and Virtual Assistants
- Comprehensive Patient Data Through Apps, RPM
- HL7 Da Vinci. Burden Reduction and Patient Empowerment
- Data Access and Patient Empowerment
- Patient Portals, Apps and APIs; Incorporating the patient voice in development and design
- Access APIs in Action
- Interoperability for Patients
- Streamlining the Patient Journey
- Modernizing Prior Authorization
- Designing Digital Front Doors
- Price Transparency
- Patient Experience through a UM Protocol
- Patient Advocate Panel- What IS Working? What do you Need?
- Strategy, Equity and Future Focus
- Patient Experience and Health Accessibility
- Measuring What Matters
- What's Next: Policy, Innovation, and the Future