NEW ORLEANS—Healthcare may survive the massive challenges it faces by adopting the business strategies of the airline industry, Warner L. Thomas, president and CEO of Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, told the audience during a keynote address March 4 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—Meaningful Use (MU) served as not an IT project but “recognition of something we had already done,” said Leland A. Babitch, MD, MBA, assistant professor of pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and former CMIO of Detroit Medical Center, who presented the inpatient perspective of MU during the AMDIS Physicians’ IT Symposium during the HIMSS annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—Meaningful Use (MU) is going to make a difference in healthcare in the U.S., predicted Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, March 3 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference. Success, however, is conditional on interoperability and standards.

NEW ORLEANS—Building and maintaining trust is the core of good medicine and good business, leadership guru Stephen M.R. Covey told an audience of approximately 500 CIOs at the 2013 CIO Forum held March 3.