ViVE 2025: The digital health conference returns to Nashville

Nashville is known as Music City and the showcase of the greatest country artists who ever lived.

Many of healthcare’s leading voices are coming to Nashville for ViVE, the annual digital health conference that runs Feb. 16-19.

More than 8,000 healthcare leaders are expected to attend the four-day event in Nashville. It’s not just the sheer number in attendance. More than a quarter of those coming are from the C-suite, along with many other top executives, organizers say.

ViVE is co-produced by CHIME and HLTH, which also produces a big annual health conference in the fall.

ViVE is aimed at hospitals, health systems, payers, and the businesses that support them. The event features more than 300 speakers, covering topics all across the healthcare industry.

Expect a significant focus on artificial intelligence, which is likely to be a dominant theme, as more health companies are using AI.

Cybersecurity also looms as a big topic. Hundreds of cyberattacks were reported in healthcare over the past year. Other topics include data privacy, interoperability, health equity, and the impact of new policies from Washington.

The event also gives a nod to its host city of Nashville, with several sessions titled to reflect big songs or artists: “Break on Through,” “Build me up,” and “I’ve got 99 problems,” and more.

While ViVE is aiming to have a little fun, organizers say they are helping healthcare leaders get down to business. And ViVE is clearly becoming a big event on the healthcare calendar.

Rich Scarfo, president of HLTH, tells Chief Healthcare Executive® that those attending can expect a timely and engaging conference on the pressing questions in the healthcare industry.

“The way that we craft the event is very, very purposeful,” Scarfo says.

“We wanted to have the most relevant topics and speakers,” he says. “We want to lean in to all of the things that we can so when attendees come there, these are not recycled, presentations that they may have seen in another event.”