Inside HIMSS 2025: API demos and developer conversations

This year at HIMSS 2025, Corti hit the ground running, with live demos, real-time feedback, and hundreds of conversations about what it means to build the AI infrastructure for healthcare. Two teammates, Nicolai (Director of Machine Learning Products) and Victor (Lead Engineer), were on-site in Las Vegas to walk attendees through our developer-first approach to ambient documentation, clinical NLP, and modular API tooling.

Why HIMSS matters for Corti’s API vision

With tens of thousands of healthcare professionals attending HIMSS each year, it’s one of the most important industry events for showcasing how new tools can help clinical teams and technology leaders move faster and safer.

For Nicolai and Victor, it was their first time at the conference. “We’d been told to expect a lot of interest,” Nicolai said, “but the amount of traffic we had at the booth still caught us by surprise.” With a smaller-than-expected team on the ground, they were demoing for nearly 10 hours a day, but the response made it worthwhile.

Explaining Corti’s API play

One of the key messages at the booth was this: Corti isn’t just another ambient documentation solution, it’s a platform. The goal is to provide modular, flexible APIs that can plug into existing workflows, EHRs, or third-party platforms.

“We’re building something that other companies can use to power their own tools,” Nicolai explained. “That resonated with developers, product managers, and decision-makers alike.”

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Tailored demos for real use cases

Rather than relying on a static pitch, Nicolai and Victor listened first, then showed people what was most relevant to them.

“If someone was interested in documentation workflows, we showed our alignment engine or question suggestion endpoint,” said Victor. “If they were more technical, we’d walk through API authentication (OAuth/OIDC) or how to create custom workflows.”

The flexibility paid off, several attendees returned with colleagues after hearing about Corti from others, reinforcing the value of a product that can be shaped to fit multiple clinical environments.

A platform built for developers

For the engineers and software architects in the crowd, Corti’s developer-first design stood out.

“Our API is built using industry standards, and everything is modeled after real-world abstractions - interactions, facts, structured notes,” Victor said. “We want teams to be able to build, test, and deploy quickly. Soon, they’ll be able to sign up and try it themselves.”

This reflects our broader commitment to EHR integration, low-lift onboarding, and support for platform builders, not just buyers.

Listening first, demo second

One of the most important lessons from HIMSS was simple: the best conversations started by listening.

Rather than delivering a one-size-fits-all pitch, Nicolai and Victor focused on understanding what each visitor was trying to build and why. Developers, clinical innovators, and tech leaders all came with different challenges, and by starting with their problems, the team could show how Corti’s platform could plug into the workflows that mattered most. It wasn’t about selling features Nicolai adds, "We weren’t trying to oversell anything. We were just explaining what we’ve built, what we’re focusing on, and what it can do for healthcare today.”

Victor adds that "that kind of transparency goes a long way in this space.” And it showed, more than one attendee mentioned Corti as a conference highlight in their HIMSS recap posts.

Why smaller, fine-tuned models matter

One topic that often came up was Corti’s approach to language models. Rather than relying on giant, general-purpose models, Corti offers fine-tuned LLMs trained on healthcare-specific data. Optimized for speed, accuracy, and explainability.

“These models are cheaper to run, easier to update, and more adaptable to clinical specialties,” Nicolai said. “That’s something our customers really value, especially when clinical workflows or guidelines change.”

Read more about our research-driven modeling approach 

Final takeaways: Listen first, demo second

For Victor and Nicolai, one of the biggest lessons from HIMSS 2025 was the value of listening.

“There’s always a temptation to jump straight into a product demo,” Nicolai said. “But the most valuable conversations happened when we paused and let people tell us about their pain points first. Then we could show how Corti actually fits.”

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