“I don’t think we’ve saved lives by documenting more,” said Clement J. McDonald, MD, director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, during his presentation at the Physicians’ IT Symposium during the  March 3 Health Information Management and Systems Society’s (HIMSS) annual convention. The symposium is co-hosted by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).

NEW ORLEANS—With ICD-10, Meaningful Use and all the developments in mobile health and analytics, CIOs and others working in health IT have a lot on their plate this year as the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference gets underway.

New Orleans—"While technology is necessary to engage patients, provider behaviors and processes are much harder to change,” Edward Martinez, senior VP and CIO at Miami Children's Hospital, said during his March 4 lecture at the 2013 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—Being the national coordinator of health IT is “not like being the CIO of an enterprise,” said Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, during the March 4 Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Town Hall Meeting during the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention.