NEW ORLEANS—The proliferation of mobile devices and the dawn of genomic sequencing will allow digital medicine to migrate into democratized medicine, or what Eric J. Topol, MD, called a Medical Gutenberg era, during his March 5 keynote lecture at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—IT project management is an art and science, and careful attention to proven strategies can lay a solid foundation for success, according to an e-session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

Privacy and security top health IT and health information exchange (HIE) challenges to address this year, according to results of a recent National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) stakeholder survey. 

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—According to the Workgroup for Electronic Data Exchange (WEDI), ICD-10 is expected to be the most costly government-mandated change ever to hit the healthcare industry, Mike Hourigan, RN, senior practice manager at Cerner, told an audience March 4 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—The 24th annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, sponsored by Infor, revealed that health IT leaders are making headway toward Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) requirements and ICD-10 preparations, but they fear the lack of well-trained IT employees to support their needs. The results were presented March 4 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

A group of heath IT companies announced on  March 4 the launch of CommonWell Health Alliance. Founding members of the alliance Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies and RelayHealth – “will work to define, promote and certify a national infrastructure with platforms and policies to break down health information silos,” according to the announcement.