ORLANDO--The time demands of federal mandates such as ICD-10 and Meaningful Use “drive my innovation push,” said Lyle Berkowitz, MD, associate CMIO of Northwestern Medicine, delivering the keynote address at the Innovation Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual meeting.

ORLANDO--Health IT should be subject to randomized, unannounced, on-site inspections, said Dean Sittig, PhD, professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, speaking during the Patient Safety Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference.

ORLANDO--“Interoperability is always on our mind but never completely within our grasp,” said James R. Younkin, director of IT for Geisinger Health System at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's pre-conference Interoperability Symposium.

ORLANDO—Patient engagement is not a goal, it’s a strategy, according to a lecture delivered during the Physicians’ IT Symposium ahead of the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference.