Events for May 14, 2026

Virtual Event: Google Meet, 3:30 - 4:30pm Emerging Technologies Topic: Making Prior Authorization Faster and Safer with Agentic AI Registration is requested 3:30 Welcome and Member Updates (John Berkner) 3:40 Guest Speaker: Making Prior Authorization Faster and Safer with Agentic AI (Tirumala Ashish Kumar Manne) 4:20 Q&A 4:30 Adjourn Prior authorization is one of the most challenging administrative workflows in healthcare. It often requires providers, payers, and clinical teams to move through multiple systems, gather supporting documentation, interpret medical policies, and wait for manual reviews before a decision can be made. These delays can create frustration for care teams and, more importantly, can slow down patient access to needed services. This session explores how agentic AI can help modernize prior authorization by supporting tasks such as eligibility checks, policy review, documentation validation, missing-information detection, clinical summarization, exception routing, and appeal preparation. The focus is not on replacing human judgment, but on using AI to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and help teams make faster, better-informed decisions. The presentation will also cover the security and governance considerations that matter when AI is introduced into healthcare workflows. Topics include protecting PHI, preventing inappropriate data access, reducing hallucination risk, maintaining audit trails, securing integrations, and ensuring human oversight for complex or high-risk cases. Attendees will leave with a practical view of how agentic AI can support a faster, safer, and more transparent prior authorization process while preserving trust, compliance, and patient safety. Agenda: 3:30 Welcome and Member Updates (John Berkner) 3:40 Guest Speaker: Making Prior Authorization Faster and Safer with Agentic AI (Tirumala Ashish Kumar Manne) 4:20 Q&A 4:30 Adjourn Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/558407

The IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section Monthly ExCom (Executive Committee) Meeting (every 2nd Thursday of the month) same time 6:30 PM EST/EDT (This is a virtual meeting, unless stated otherwise). We will discuss Section mission objectives, guidance, direction, as well as all the chapter/affinity groups/student branches and section committee reports, events, plans, opportunities to assist each other and help create value for our members. All IEEE members are welcome to attend, but they do need to register in order to receive the webex details. NOTE: All Chapter/Affinity Groups/Student Branch Chairs are required to update and inform all attendees of their past/current activities and plans for the year. A standard template is provided - which every member can view. If the chairs cannot attend, they are required to nominate one of their current chapter/affinity group/student branch officers to attend on their behalf. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mrCOzBVIofTLZ4Z5eovGza4VN6amLgz1?usp=sharing Co-sponsored by: Sharan Kalwani Speaker(s): Christopher Johnson, Sharan Kalwani, Agenda: Published on google drive - link sent each month via email to ALL the chapter/Affinity Group/Student Branch/Committee chairs. Ensure you are listed on the ExCom listserv as well (contact [email protected] in case of doubt) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mrCOzBVIofTLZ4Z5eovGza4VN6amLgz1?usp=sharing Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/525072