Plenty is happening in health IT, which is why more than 40,000 people have descended upon Chicago’s massive McCormick Place convention center for the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, a record even before final registration figures are in, and more than we expected, as you will hear from this interview.
Where to start making sense of it all? Perhaps a chat with a HIMSS executive is in order, so MedCity News sat down with HIMSS Executive Vice President Carla Smith over the weekend, prior to the start of this annual conference. Take a listen and hear what Smith had to say about
In an interview recorded just before the start of the annual conference, we talk about pressing issues from patient engagement to Meaningful Use to interoperability. At one point, the discussion turns to high-profile empowered patients such as “E-Patient” Dave De Bronkart, which seem precient because a day later, De Bronkart and others informally launched a movement to get masses of people to request access to their medical records on a single day.
Smith also dropped the news that HIMSS16 in Las Vegas will feature tours of local cloud-hosting facilities to talk with experts in privacy and security of data in the cloud.
Take a listen below.
