2027 HIMSS North Carolina Winter Dinner
Our 2027 HIMSS North Carolina Winter Dinner will be held on Monday, January 25, 2027, from 5 PM to 8 PM @ Northeastern University, Charlotte.
This year’s theme is Healthcare AI in 2027: From Experimentation to Trusted Measurable Impact . Our speakers are Ty Greenhalgh, Kishan Patel, and Sathiyan Bakthavachalu.
The pilot era is over. Health systems across North Carolina have spent the last few years testing what AI can do — now the harder questions are landing: What actually made it to production? Who owns the risk? And how do we prove it worked?
Join NC HIMSS for an evening of dinner and candid conversation with a panel of healthcare, payer, and industry leaders who are living these questions day to day. We’ll dig into what separates the pilots that scaled from the ones that quietly stalled, how organizations are building trust with clinicians and patients, and what leaders are actually measuring in 2027.
Come for the discussion, stay for the connections.
Registrations made prior to December 7 will include free parking.
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Ty Greenhalgh (LinkedIn) is the healthcare technology strategist at Armis from ServiceNow. He is also a member of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) and an ambassador with the HHS 405(d) Task Group. Ty assisted in the development of the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients. Ty participated in the development of the HHS Landscape Analysis, which prioritized the HPH-CPGs. Ty is a member of the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council Cyber Working Group (HSCC-CWG) and currently participates in several of the subworking groups, including AI in Healthcare: Secure-by-Design and Legacy MedTech Security. |
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Kishan Patel MBA, PMP, is Program Director, Technology Operations at Fairview Health Services, a nonprofit healthcare system based in Minneapolis. He brings more than 15 years of experience, including roles at Allscripts (now Veradigm), Quintiles (now IQVIA), Grifols, and SAS. His background spans ambulatory EHR adoption, clinical research systems, pharmacy automation and oncology compounding robotics, diagnostic laboratory technology, and global hosting and professional services for large enterprise customers. At Fairview, Kishan leads technology enablement initiatives that help cross-functional teams identify and adopt AI and automation within their business processes. His team applies design thinking and process engineering to reduce manual effort and redirect capacity toward strategic priorities. Drawing on both vendor and health system experience, he brings a practical perspective on aligning technology adoption with operational needs and the people doing the work. |
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Sathiyan Bakthavachalu (LinkedIn) has spent more than 20 years in enterprise technology, most of it in healthcare. He is Executive Director and Distinguished Architect at CVS Health. He specializes in taking AI from promising pilot to dependable production system, especially in settings where errors carry real consequences. He has championed and scaled an enterprise architecture practice and led large, distributed teams of architects and engineers. Sathiyan writes on agentic AI governance, responsible AI, and how organizations give AI agents the context they need to work well. He holds a Master of Professional Studies in Enterprise Architecture from Penn State. |
MODERATORS: Jennifer Jury and Amy Roberts
Registrations made prior to December 7 will include free parking.