HIMSS Global Spotlight- Building Trust and Confidence Through Better Healthcare Data Quality and Usability

Join us at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 3:45 PM to 4:15 PM local time. Our speaker will be The Sequoia Project’s VP of Informatics, Didi Davis.

In today’s interconnected healthcare landscape, data flows across providers, public health agencies and patient portals—but trust only emerges when the data is reliable, usable and secure. Leveraging the Sequoia Project’s Data Usability Workgroup Implementation Guide Version 2.0, released December 11, 2024, this session explores seven critical focus areas—from provenance and code use to reducing duplicates and ensuring data integrity—that directly underpin trustworthiness. Participants will gain a roadmap to enhance systems and workflows through practical tech-agnostic guidance aligned with United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) version 3 and HL7® standards. We will dive into how the Data Usability Taking Root Community of Practice has leveraged structured provenance tracking, standardized coding, narrative linkage, lab interoperability and metadata tagging, which all contribute to data’s integrity—and to the clinician and patient confidence it inspires. Attendees will leave equipped with clear, actionable strategies and implementation steps that can be adopted by vendors, implementers and electronic health information exchanges (HIEs) within 18 months, as envisioned in the guide. With USCDI version 3 adoption starting in 2026, plus growing expectations for data insight tools and artificial intelligence, there is no better time to build the foundation of trusted data. The Implementation Guide version 2.0 delivers pragmatic, reliable healthcare data—fueling better decisions and stronger patient trust.