In Conversation: Sandy Saggar
CEO, Connexall - on the case for vendor-neutral interoperability and connected hospital environments
Among the leaders shaping how care and technology converge is Sandy Saggar, CEO, Connexall. In a wide-ranging conversation conducted by Healthcare IT News, Sandy 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
The case for vendor-neutral interoperability and connected hospital environments - workflow automation, virtual care's evolution, and where AI fits into care-team operations.
“The future of healthcare depends on vendor-neutral interoperability.”
- Sandy Saggar, in conversation with Healthcare IT News
Conversation highlights
The case for vendor-neutral interoperability and connected hospital environments
And where AI fits into care-team operations
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.
It is a conversation that rewards close reading by anyone building or buying in this market. At Connexall, 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
It is a perspective we expect to age well, and one that connects directly to the trends HealthTech Cube tracks across all eight of our coverage categories.