Last updated May 2026
Where Russ and Known & Cited have shown up — on stage, in print, and in the words of people who were there.
Russ spoke on a patient AI panel at HIMSS Europe 2026 in Copenhagen alongside fellow cancer patient advocate Dale Atkinson, after an invitation from Tjasa Zajc. The room — a healthcare technology conference with thousands of attendees — had two patients on stage.
Russ used his time to argue that AI's most useful place in healthcare isn't on the platform side. It's in the hands of patients building tools to survive. He's open-sourced his entire treatment data set to make the point — anyone can use it.
The cancer side of Russ's work runs through FC:AI, a separate project building free AI tools for patients. The HIMSS talk straddled both worlds.
Video to follow.
I spent my days at HIMSS Europe in Copenhagen in big conference rooms. Keynotes, panels, stage talks. Tech people talking about AI adoption curves, ROI frameworks, platform integrations. Then Russ spoke for a few minutes and I forgot all of it.
He doesn't need our frameworks. He needed to not die faster, and so he built something.
This is where AI can be used for good. His story and example is the power of AI to do good for patients — and the most powerful is when regular people build, not to make money, but in an effort to make a difference.
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