🔥 Heading into #WMIF2026 this week! Mass General Brigham's World Medical Innovation Forum, where 250+ CEOs, investors, and clinicians get candid about where healthcare is actually headed, in the US and globally. I'll be covering it, including AI and patient trust, the future of diagnostics, rare disease, and more. 🤝 Presenting or attending? Let's connect — tell me what I shouldn't miss.👇 @MGBInnovation @EvanKirstel @eViRaHealth #HealthcareAI #DigitalHealth #HealthIT #GenAI #HealthTech

Heading to Boston for the World Medical Innovation Forum? Rohit Mahajan, Co-host of @TheBigUnlock, will be there. Let’s connect and discuss the innovations shaping healthcare. Learn more: worldmedicalinnovation.org/ (hubs.la/Q04xzzG70)) #WMIF2026 #HealthcareInnovation

Come see MedVR x Mass General Bridgham at #WMIF2026! We’re excited to be showcasing what we’ve been building with MGB: a fully immersive vascular catheterization simulator for Apple Vision Pro. The experience is designed to simulate the complete vascular catheterization procedure in spatial computing, giving clinicians and trainees the ability to practice the workflow hands-on in an interactive, repeatable environment. The goal is to explore a new approach to medical simulation: making high-fidelity procedural training more accessible, scalable, and available wherever clinicians learn and practice. Come by and get a hands on demo today or tomorrow at the World Medical Innovation Forum 2026!

🔥 Heading into #WMIF2026 this week! Mass General Brigham's World Medical Innovation Forum, where 250+ CEOs, investors, and clinicians get candid about where healthcare is actually headed, in the US and globally. I'll be covering it, including AI and patient trust, the future of diagnostics, rare disease, and more. 🤝 Presenting or attending? Let's connect — tell me what I shouldn't miss.👇 @MGBInnovation @EvanKirstel @eViRaHealth #HealthcareAI #DigitalHealth #HealthIT #GenAI #HealthTech

💥 Big day in the studio! I’m here with my husband @EvanKirstel 🤩 as he tapes a new episode of @TechImpactTV 🎥 Produced by the incredible Juan Antonio Martinez, the show airs on Bloomberg TV and Fox Business, spotlighting the innovators shaping what’s next. Proud, excited, and ready for some behind-the-scenes magic ✨ #media #innovation #TVproduction #AI

And just ran into Dr. Gopal Chopra! #HIMSS26 @FPTAmericas

Looking forward to coverage and your insights! #WMIF2026 #HealthcareAI #HealthIT #MedDevice @MGBInnovation

This week, Imbria CEO Alvin Shih will speak at @MGBInnovation #WMIF2026 in Boston on the Heart of the Matter | Redefining Cardiovascular Care Beyond Statins panel. 📍 Weds., Sept. 23, 11-11:40 am ET

A once nightly pill cut sleep apnea events by 44% in a phase 3 trial. Millions of people quit CPAP every year because sleeping strapped to a machine is miserable. If a prescription can do the job, an entire durable medical equipment category gets disrupted by a pharmacy counter. Big trial, big implications. sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Sweden is officially trading screens and tablets for physical books and handwriting to reverse a decline in reading skills. Once at the forefront of hyper-digitalized learning, Sweden is engineering a dramatic pivot back to the basics in its classrooms. Concerned that an overreliance on digital tablets and screens has eroded reading comprehension and foundational writing skills, Swedish education officials are investing heavily in traditional printed textbooks. The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores. Experts point out that while technology was championed to level the playing field, its unrestricted use has instead led to shorter attention spans and reduced retention among younger learners. Scientific evidence strongly supports this retro transition. Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language—cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard. Furthermore, reading from a printed page provides critical spatial cues that aid comprehension, unlike digital screens that often subject students to cognitive fatigue and constant distractions. While computers and tablets remain valuable tools for research and collaboration, educators worldwide are watching Sweden's massive reinvestment in physical books as a potential blueprint for a more balanced, science-backed approach to modern schooling. source: The Guardian. Switching off: Sweden says back-to-basics schooling works on paper.

When Better Questions Change the Outcome by @IrmaRaste @eViRaHealth In 2020, 18-year-old Kiley Lemasters suffered a seizure and was diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer. She was told she might have only months to live. She wrote a will, chose a casket, and prepared for the worst. But the years passed, and the expected decline never came. Her scans remained stable, leaving her husband, Cole, searching for an explanation. After a recent MRI, Cole used ChatGPT to better understand the language in Kiley's radiology report. That prompted him to go back through roughly 60 pages of older medical records. One detail stood out. Kiley's original pathology report showed an **IDH1 R132H mutation**. The finding wasn't new. It had been sitting in her medical records for years. What had changed was the science. In 2021, the World Health Organization updated how brain tumors are classified. Under the newer system, an IDH-mutant tumor is no longer considered a conventional glioblastoma. It is classified as an **IDH-mutant astrocytoma**, a different disease with a different outlook and treatment approach. Cole brought the information to Kiley's neuro-oncologist, who confirmed the updated classification. This wasn't simply a case of doctors getting it wrong. Kiley's original diagnosis reflected the medical standards in place in 2020. As the science evolved, so did the classification system. The software didn't diagnose the tumor or uncover a new mutation. It helped a family understand complicated medical records well enough to ask a question worth bringing back to their medical team. The timing is interesting. Just this week, @OpenAI expanded *Health in ChatGPT* across the U.S., allowing eligible users to securely connect supported medical records and Apple Health data directly to ChatGPT. Instead of uploading individual files, people can now ask questions about their own health information in context, helping them better understand lab results, physician notes, medications, and medical history. OpenAI says connected health data is not used to train its foundation models, and the feature is designed to support conversations with healthcare professionals, not replace them. ([OpenAI][1]) Healthcare generates an enormous amount of information, from pathology reports and imaging studies to genetic testing and physician notes. Patients often have access to all of it but little help making sense of it. Tools that translate complex medical language into plain English can help patients better understand their own records. They are not a substitute for physicians or medical specialists, but they can make conversations with those experts far more productive. Kiley's story shows what that can look like in practice. The answer wasn't hidden behind a new test or a breakthrough treatment. It was already in the record. Someone simply connected the dots and brought the right question back to the medical team.

TRUMP: Putin said, "I'd love to meet in Moscow." I don’t know if Zelenskyy would go to Moscow. Maybe he would. Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It’s difficult. There are lot of Ukrainian drones there. (Audience laughs) It’s dangerous. TRUMP: Yeah, it’s hard to go to Moscow.

Motherland monument in Kyiv tonight

The future of work is not just happening in offices, dashboards, and meeting rooms. It is happening in the truck. On the job site. At the customer’s door. In the moments where a technician has to diagnose the issue, find the right part, update the customer, close the loop, and move on to the next call. That was the focus of my conversation with Fred Voccola, Chairman & CEO of @simprosoftware, co-founder and former CEO of Kaseya, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author of The Coming Disruption. Fred has spent decades building and scaling software companies, and now he’s focused on one of the biggest opportunities in technology: bringing modern tools to the trades. (Adam Mendler) Field service is one of those massive parts of the economy that people rely on every day, but rarely think about until something breaks. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, facilities, security, maintenance, telecom, and construction. The work is complex, physical, urgent, and still full of friction. What makes this conversation interesting is that it is not really about software. It is about the people doing the work. The technicians, contractors, and field teams who keep businesses running, buildings operational, and communities functioning. Better scheduling. Better information. Fewer repeat visits. Less paperwork. More time solving problems and serving customers. The technician is not fading into the background. The technician is becoming the center of a more connected, more efficient service business. Join us on @TechImpactTV with @simprosoftware as we discuss The Coming Disruption and what comes next for the trades. #FieldService #Trades #FutureOfWork #TechImpactTV #Simpro

RSAC 2026 is a wrap an the 35th anniversary of RSA Conference took over Moscone Center March 23–26 with the theme "Power of Community," and it lived up to the billing. Thousands of us descended on San Francisco to talk shop, compare notes, and try to make sense of where security is headed in a world where AI is moving faster than most of our governance frameworks. The keynote lineup set the tone early. Cisco's Jeetu Patel dug into agentic security, Google's Sandra Joyce made the case for active defense, and Armis CTO Nadir Izrael walked us through the strange new reality of AI going up against AI. The Innovation Sandbox had its usual mix of promising startups, the SC Awards handed out well-deserved recognition, and appearances from Hugh Jackman and the Bacon Brothers reminded everyone that even in a room full of threat hunters and CISOs, the human side still matters. If you were anywhere near X during the show, you saw how much the conversation caught fire under #RSAC and #RSAC2026. It kept rolling well into April with recaps, executive interviews, and thoughtful analysis that usually gets lost in the noise. Brand24's social listening data tells the real story on who actually moved the needle, and it's more interesting than just counting tweets. When you factor in reach, engagement, and quality rather than pure volume, independent voices punched well above their weight. Agentic AI was the theme nobody could escape, and rightly so. The conversations finally moved past the hype cycle and into the hard questions: how do you govern an agentic workforce, what does runtime control actually look like, where does human-in-the-loop stop being theater and start being meaningful, and how do you think differently about offensive versus defensive AI. Identity security rode shotgun on most of these discussions, especially around non-human identities and the shift away from human-centric models toward something built for machines talking to machines. Active defense also had a real moment, with more organizations ready to stop playing goalie and start disrupting attackers in real time. Post-quantum readiness was the other drumbeat you couldn't ignore. The message from the experts was blunt: most organizations are nowhere near ready, and the runway is shorter than people think. Add in AI-powered phishing that's faster and more convincing than anything we've seen, ongoing supply chain headaches, and the usual AppSec challenges, and you get a pretty clear picture of what CISOs are walking back to their offices thinking about. What I appreciated most was the tone. This wasn't a week of breathless AI speculation. It was pragmatic, grounded, and focused on how to actually operationalize security at machine speed. People were honest about the gap between what autonomous systems promise and what we actually trust them to do without supervision, and that honesty is where the real progress starts. On the share of voice front, @brand24 numbers gave us the clearest ranking of who drove the conversation online. Here is the reconciled Top 26 list by reach, share of voice, and engagement: 1. @EvanKirstel – yours truly with the highest share of voice at 20% per Brand24. 2. @ESET – Strong Facebook presence with 11% share of voice contributing broad security awareness content. 3. @PCMag – Facebook coverage driving 8.6% share of voice through tech media analysis. 4. @CiscoSecure (Cisco Security) – Facebook and X posts generated 7.3% share of voice with keynote and product tie-ins. 5. @Akamai (Akamai Technologies) – Facebook activity at 3.1% share of voice focused on application defense. 6. @Veeam (Veeam Software) – Facebook content at 2.4% share of voice highlighting data resilience, ransomware recovery, SC Award wins, and backup-as-security for agentic environments. 7. @CiscoSecure – X account with 2.0% share of voice delivering heavy keynote coverage and agentic security insights. 8. @Cisco – X presence at 1.9% share of voice supporting broader ecosystem commentary. 9. @CrowdStrike – X commentary including from George Kurtz (@GeorgeKurtz) generated 1.6% share of voice and massive reach. 10. @DarkReading – X in-depth recaps and editorial commentary at 1.5% share of voice. 11. @RavitJain (The Ravit Show) – YouTube interviews contributing 1.3% share of voice. 12. @Proofpoint – X account with 1.3% share of voice on CEO interviews and AI threat analysis. 13. @Rapid7 – X activity at 1.2% share of voice on vulnerability and response topics. 14. @Cisco (Facebook) – Additional Facebook channel at 1.2% share of voice. 15. @splunk – X content at 1.1% share of voice on observability and AI integration. 16. @Shirastweet (Shira Rubinoff) – YouTube contributions at 1.1% share of voice. 17. @KirkDBorne – X data and analytics insights at 1.1% share of voice. 18. @SANSInstitute – X training and education content at 1.1% share of voice. 19. @OneRSAC – Official RSA Conference account and central event voice at 1.0% share of voice. 20. @cyb3rops (Florian Roth) – Respected DFIR expert who shared consistent practical insights. 21. @theCUBE – Dominated live coverage and on-the-ground interviews. 22. @Checkmarx – Focused on AppSec and AI automation topics. 23. @Zscaler – Emphasized zero-trust approaches for AI agents. 24. @IRONSCALES – Shared in-depth discussions on AI phishing defense. 25. @DoppelHQ – Posted compelling social engineering simulation content. 26. @Claroty and @ClarotyHealth – Covered OT and healthcare security topics. The post-event momentum is real, and the wrap-up threads and "what actually mattered" posts are going to keep this conversation alive for weeks. The community theme wasn't just marketing, it translated into actual collaboration that's going to show up in real products and playbooks. And the gap between AI ambition and AI execution is still the biggest opportunity in the room for anyone willing to do the practical work of closing it. RSAC 2026 made one thing clear. The future of this industry isn't just about the tech we build, it's about the community that figures out how to use it responsibly. The voices that keep delivering clear, actionable insight are the ones who will shape what comes next. What stuck with you from RSAC 2026? Drop your takeaways in the comments,

Identity Security After #RSAC 2026: Agentic AI is creating a new identity class at work: non-human identities. Inventory, authenticate, authorize, govern, deprovision. That’s the playbook. Hear how @RSAsecurity and Microsoft think about it #AI #Agents nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1kKzDMlpW…

Sounds familiar @EvanKirstel?

Idea for #HIMSS26 and all conferences @IrmaRaste