Blazing the Next Frontier: The 2026 CHIME + KLAS Trailblazer Award

Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME, sits down with Adam Gale, Founder and CEO of KLAS Research, and Dr. Richa Gupta, Vice President of Care Transformation at Ambience Healthcare to discuss the future of artificial intelligence in healthcare operations. As recipients of the CHIME and KLAS Trailblazer Award, Ambience Healthcare represents a new generation of technology companies recognized not just for innovation, but for measurable outcomes inside health systems. Together, the leaders explore how ambient AI is evolving beyond documentation support into broader clinical and operational intelligence—impacting coding accuracy, compliance, and revenue integrity.

Key Takeaways:

1. How health systems are redefining AI maturity as they move from experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment across clinical and operational workflows.

2. Why ambient AI is expanding beyond clinician documentation to influence coding accuracy, compliance, and revenue integrity across health systems.

3. The organizational conditions required to successfully scale AI initiatives, including workflow integration, leadership alignment, and clinician adoption.

4. What separates high-performing healthcare AI vendors from early-stage solutions that struggle to move beyond pilot programs.

5. How digital health leaders can balance innovation, governance, and trust as artificial intelligence becomes embedded in core healthcare operations.