HLTH 2026

Stop by Booth 4026 to talk about how trusted identity data helps you know who is who across your patients, members, and providers. While you’re there, build your own LEGO® minifigure: every one is unique, just like the identities we help you get right.

HLTH is calling this the age of intelligent healthcare. None of it works if you don’t know who you’re talking about, and that problem doesn’t stop at your walls.​

Every organization eventually hits the same wall: identity resolved internally, but unrecognizable the moment a partner is involved. Referrals sent to the wrong place. Directories nobody trusts. Claims that don’t hold up. Every new partner relationship rebuilt from scratch, with its own matching logic, its own reconciliation, its own manual cleanup. Cross-organization match rates can fall to roughly 50%, and identity is consistently cited as the biggest barrier to interoperability.​

In this hands-on workshop, MDM veterans and industry experts will lead peer groups of payers, health systems, healthcare technology companies, and life sciences organizations through what’s blocking that connectivity today, and the practical steps they’re taking to get there ahead of 2027 initiatives. Along the way, we’ll paint a picture of what changes once identity works across organizations, not just within one, using the Verato Identity Network™ (VIN) model as a working example of what that connectivity can look like.​

Come ready to work. Leave with a network, and a clearer view of what’s possible once identity connects across organizations.​

Every analytics investment, AI initiative, and patient experience strategy in a Health System rests on a deceptively simple assumption: the organization knows who it’s talking about.​

Nearly 90% of health system executives say digital and AI transformation is a top priority, but without trusted identity, even the most sophisticated analytics, AI, and engagement initiatives can struggle to deliver their intended value.​

For many CDAOs, the importance of identity only becomes visible when something breaks: reports that don’t reconcile, duplicate or fragmented records, stewardship queues that continue to grow, or AI initiatives held back by data that cannot be confidently connected or verified. Beneath these challenges sits a foundational issue: how patient, provider, and consumer identities are governed, connected, and managed across an increasingly complex health ecosystem.​

Co-hosted by HLTH and Verato, this closed-door roundtable brings together senior data and analytics leaders for an open, peer-to-peer discussion on what it really takes to get identity right and to keep it right as organizations, data environments, and use cases evolve.​