NEW ORLEANS—Florida prepared for future health information exchange (HIE) sustainability by establishing a strong set of guiding principles, said Heidi Fox, MS, HIE project manager for the State Agency for Healthcare Administration. Fox and Janet Hofmeister, BSCS, PMP, program manager, Florida Health Information Exchange, Harris Healthcare Solutions, spoke during the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—It’s difficult, and perhaps impossible, to kill two birds with one stone. But Hawaii Pacific Health achieved both financial return on investment (ROI) and improved population health with its EHR deployment, its leadership team shared during a March 5 session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—When considering your patient data, “it doesn’t help to know what happened 30 days ago. It’s too late,” said Mical DeBrow, PhD, RN, Siemens Clinical Strategic Consulting, speaking during a March 5 education session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—George Reynolds, MD, MMM, vice president, CMIO and CIO for Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., started working on dashboards when the organization implemented a CPOE initiative in 2007. Reynolds spoke during the Physicians' IT Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention. The symposium is co-hosted by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).