Chief Medical Information Officer Forum: 2026 Healthcare Technology Conference
September 8-10, 2025
Oceanside, CA
Engage Directly with Health System Leaders
The Health Management Academy’s Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) Forum is the healthcare leadership conference for senior information executives to connect, lead change, and shape the future of healthcare together. THMA's Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) Forum was built exclusively for senior industry executives looking for candid, trusted dialogue, and strategic collaboration. Here you will find confidential, in-depth explorations of the future of AI in healthcare, trends in digital health integration, and effective leadership.
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For over 25 years, The Health Management Academy has convened health system C-suite leaders and select industry executives, curating two-way conversations, collaborative problem solving and thought leadership sharing.
Health System Forum Members
What Sets the CMIO Experience Apart
Member-Driven Content, Curated for CMIOs: All our meetings are built around the priorities that matter most to today’s healthcare CMIOs. Agendas are curated on content areas prioritized by our members, who are leading health system Chief Medical Information Officers. Members shape forum content to reflect their top priorities, including digital transformation, enhancing interoperability, and building digital resilience.
The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include health system CMIOs from organizations like Mayo Clinic, Yale New Haven Health, Novant Health, and Intermountain, alongside key industry leaders - typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and product and strategy executives. All participants are hand-selected based on their ability to contribute meaningfully to the conversation.
A Forum Built for Relationships: Reception-style dinners and informal social gatherings welcome friends and family and facilitate conversations, camaraderie and long-term relationship building.
True Partnership: This is a peer-to-peer forum. The industry executives who attend this healthcare technology conference want to listen, contribute insights, and build lasting connections with CMIOs, understanding their challenges.
The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community
The CMIO Forum creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is curated to foster meaningful, candid dialogue between fellow Chief Medical Information Officers and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders.
Industry Forum Members
Recent topics include:
AI Transformation and Enterprise Integration: CMIOs, CNIOs, and analytics leaders examined how health systems are moving beyond pilot projects to scale AI enterprise-wide. Discussions focused on the convergence of ambient and agentic technologies, workforce enablement, and the organizational design needed to turn “intelligence on tap” into measurable value.
Innovation and Informatics Governance: Members explored how Leading Health Systems are evolving governance structures to integrate CMIOs within broader innovation ecosystems. Sessions highlighted varying models for aligning informatics, data science, and innovation leadership to accelerate progress while maintaining clinical and operational alignment.
Crisis Readiness and Informatics Leadership: Health system leaders shared frameworks for embedding informatics within crisis response planning. Conversations emphasized CMIOs’ role in orchestrating clinical continuity during technology disruptions and ensuring resilient, cross-functional coordination in high-stakes moments.
Continuous Education and Optimization: As technology upgrades accelerate, CMIOs discussed how to sustain clinician engagement and system optimization through modernized education models. Members shared strategies for ongoing training, competency maintenance, and balancing innovation with end-user usability.
The Chief Medical Information Officer Forum Experience
Each CMIO Forum is a 2.5-day immersive experience with member-led sessions focusing on real-time challenges and forward-looking strategies in technology implementation. The Health Management Academy’s Fall 2025 CMIO Forum provides original insights and analysis of trends, strategic investments, and future-proofing innovation.
Our Convening Experiences
Extending Value Beyond the Conference
Members gain access to a year-round ecosystem of insights and engagement through THMA’s Executive Insights Hub. This digital platform discusses the latest trends and challenges in technology, innovation, and digital resilience, as well as trending CXO priorities from large health systems across the country.
Our other year-round resources include:
Quarterly Trend Reports: Digestible insights and follow-ups from live briefings and proprietary research.
Executive Edge: A Sunday evening digest with quick-read summaries of industry-impacting events.
Post-Forum Debriefs: Key takeaways and insights from our Forums - useful even for teammates who did not attend.
Healthcare Bootcamp: A library of short videos and modules to onboard new team members or sharpen your team’s healthcare knowledge.
About The Health Management Academy
Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.
We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.
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