CHICAGO—Personalized medicine may bring clinicians at odds with evidence-based medicine, said Howard C. Bauchner, MD, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, speaking at the Healthcare Leadership Forum. Healthcare is working on “reconciling patient preference with evidence-based medicine,” he said.

The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society promised a big show this year in the Crescent City and they delivered. HIMSS13 included keynotes from powerhouses such as Mostashari, Topol and Clinton and well over 200 education sessions, e-sessions, symposia and more. More than 34,000 people attended the conference and 1,158 vendors exhibited in a hall that covered 17 football fields.

NEW ORLEANS—Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in New Brunswick, N.J., survived a failed EMR implementation effort before it could experience a successful one, according to Nicole Martinez, BSN, RN, director of nursing informatics, who spoke during the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—“Everyone focuses on the increasing numbers of codes” that will come with the shift from ICD-9 to ICD-10, but the new coding system impacts everyone and everything from revenue cycle to patient access to health information management, said Tom Ormondroyd, MBA, vice president and general manager of elearning solutions for Precyse during an educational session at the Health Information Management and Systems Society annual convention.