In Conversation: Peter Eggleston

Some of the clearest thinking in digital health today comes from Peter Eggleston, Global Product Marketing Director, GE HealthCare. In a wide-ranging conversation conducted by MobiHealthNews, Peter laid out a view of the industry that is both candid and immediately useful to the executives, clinicians, and builders who read HealthTech Cube.

The conversation

GE HealthCare's digital portfolio at HIMSS25 - cloud-first and hybrid strategies for imaging, enterprise and vendor-neutral archives, edge computing, and a forthcoming cloud diagnostic viewer.

Conversation highlights

The bigger picture

The AI adoption question runs through every executive conversation in 2026. The evidence base is finally arriving: the largest controlled study of ambient documentation, published in JAMA, found clinicians saved 16 minutes of documentation time per day - but only a third of users hit the usage threshold for maximum benefit (our coverage). Meanwhile Rock Health has stopped labeling AI as a differentiator at all, because every company claims it - which is exactly why operating discipline of the kind described here separates winners from demo-ware.

The data-infrastructure backdrop makes this conversation timely: TEFCA crossed one billion exchanged health records this summer, up from 10 million in under a year (our coverage), while KLAS reports EHR purchasing fell 40% as capital shifts from record systems to the AI and analytics layered on top of them. Interoperability is no longer the constraint - deciding what to do with flowing data is.

The exchange offers a rare unvarnished look at how these decisions actually get made. At GE HealthCare, that thinking translates into daily decisions about where technology genuinely earns its place in care delivery, and where discipline matters more than novelty.

The HTC take

As the reimbursement and regulatory ground shifts through 2026 and 2027, this is exactly the kind of leadership thinking worth revisiting.