BOSTON—A provocative trio of Boston-based thoughtleaders closed out AMIA’s iHealth 2015 Conference on May 29 discussing the current state of health IT. 

BOSTON—When Union Hospital was going to implement a new EMR, the organization took advantage of the opportunity to also implement an infrastructure with greater information security. CIO Anne Lara, EdD, RN, CNE, CPHIMS, shared the hospital's experience during a presentation at Medical Informatics World. 

BOSTON—While data often are highly granular and voluminous, poorly structured and dirty, they also offer novel, breakthrough insights into familiar challenges, said Tariq Abu-Jaber, MA MPH, vice president of medical informatics at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, speaking at Medical Informatics World.

BOSTON—If you apply privacy and security policies and procedures inconsistently, you will create problems, according to Lassaad Fridhi, information privacy and security officer for Commonwealth Care Alliance, speaking at Medical Informatics World.