Event Summary
08/30/26
Epic UGM 2026: Summary of Meeting and Key Themes
Epic Systems hosted its annual User Group Meeting on August 16–19, 2026. The following is a report on the themes we noticed, new announcements, and what one of Maverick's Senior Advisors heard at the event.
08/2/26
CMS Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative One-Year Anniversary Event
On July 27, 2026, CMS hosted and livestreamed a one-year anniversary event of the Health Tech Ecosystem initiative. It was a celebration of progress made across one year of modernizing health technology and data interoperability through private-public collaboration.
06/28/26
Adoption of AI in Clinical Care: Updates from the HHS RFI
On June 25, 2026, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted a webinar to discuss multitude of responses to the HHS request for information (RFI) entitled “Accelerating the Adoption and Use of Artificial Intelligence as Part of Clinical Care,” that was released in late December 2025.
06/21/26
CMS Public Input Hearing: REAL Health Providers Act Public Meeting
On June 15, 2026, CMS hosted a public discussion to gather stakeholder input on implementing the Requiring Enhanced and Accurate Lists of (REAL) Health Providers Act, a federal law that was passed by Congress in February 2026 as part of a larger budget bill.
06/14/26
Medicare Advantage Summit 2026
The Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and Health Plan Alliance held their 2026 Medicare Advantage Summit, bringing leaders from regional and provider-sponsored health plans together for two days to discuss market dynamics, policy, AI developments, enrollment distribution, and investment trends shaping Medicare Advantage (MA).
06/13/26
CMMI Webinar: ACCESS Model for Primary Care Practitioners and Referring Clinicians
On June 4, 2026, the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) held a webinar on the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model and its implications for primary care practitioners (PCPs) and referring clinicians who co-manage patient care with participating health tech companies.
06/7/26
Supercharging Rural Health with Digital Innovation
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, the Connected Health Initiative hosted an event on the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), a $50 billion initiative to increase rural health care access through digital transformation that began this year.
05/22/26
On May 13, 2026, the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy hosted its annual conference, with sessions covering rural health care, GLP-1 therapies, and digital health innovations. The conference focused on the tools and reforms needed to drive transformation over the next decade.
05/9/26
ONC Health IT Advisory Committee May 2026 Meeting: Affordability & Health Tech Hearing
On Thursday, May 7, 2026, the Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC), the federal advisory committee to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), held its quarterly meeting. The meeting included ONC updates on the EHIgnite Challenge and the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT program as well as a hearing on affordability in health care.
04/26/26
On April 20, 2026, the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) hosted a series of roundtable discussions to explore how health IT can enhance current behavioral health care.