Can convening replace regulation in health IT? An expert interview with Ryan Howells, Leavitt Partners

Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners, sat down with HTN's Martin Cech on August 21, 2026 to discuss the one-year anniversary of CMS's Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, why convening and voluntary pledges are outperforming traditional rulemaking, the new pledge categories like e-prior authorization and clinical trial matching, and what it will take to finally unlock patient data from the EHRs.