HIMSS27 Global Health Conference Chicago 2027

HIMSS27 Global Health Conference & Exhibition is the annual conference and exhibition of HIMSS, a healthcare information and technology society that counts more than 130,000 members. The 2027 edition runs 5 to 8 April at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago: Monday is given to preconference forums with separate registration; the conference and exhibition fill Tuesday to Thursday. HIMSS26 took place in Las Vegas in March 2026. The organiser names health-system executives and clinical leaders, government officials, startups and investors, payers, consultants and technology vendors as its audience, and says the last edition drew over 24,000 attendees. The programme has more than 600 education sessions, with AI, cybersecurity and digital health as headline topics. The Monday forums cover AI in Healthcare, Healthcare Cybersecurity, Interoperability & HIE, Nursing Informatics, Business Operations, Enterprise Data Modernization and Public Health Data Modernization; the last of these is sold as a paid add-on and is not part of the Conference Plus pass. The exhibition floor is split into specialty pavilions: Artificial Intelligence, a Cybersecurity Command Center, Interoperability, Government Connections Plaza and International Pavilions. Listed anchor exhibitors include Baxter, eClinicalWorks, Hyland, InterSystems, Oracle Health and Waystar. Beyond the hall there is an Executive Summit, Emerge for early-stage companies and investors, and a Hosted Buyer Program for targeted vendor meetings. HIMSS27 speakers and schedule were not yet published; HIMSS26 had Jeremy Renner, Dr. John Halamka and Dr. Mehmet Oz on stage. Registration is open at early bird rates, which hold until advance pricing starts on 21 December 2026. Passes start at $995 for Exhibit Hall Only, a flat rate with no member discount. Conference Plus is $1,695 for HIMSS members and includes one preconference forum, excluding the Native American & Indigenous Health Symposium and the Public Health Data Modernization Forum, which are paid add-ons. Executive Plus (qualified providers) is $1,795 for members, a Conference Pass $1,345; non-members pay more on those three tiers. A Preconference Only pass is $475, a Student Pass $325, and press passes are free. For affiliates and media buyers the fit is indirect. HIMSS27 is a procurement and policy event for hospitals and health-IT vendors, not a performance-marketing show; the published pages list no affiliate or lead-generation content. It is relevant to healthtech publishers, digital-health marketers and vendors who want to see which AI and data products health systems plan to buy in 2027; for them the Hosted Buyer Program and exhibitor list matter more than the sessions.