Hot topics at HIMSS13

Beth Walsh | | Health Exec | Precision Medicine

HIMSS13 begins this weekend and the conference offers a wide range of educational sessions and experiences from pre-conference symposia and workshops to general sessions and keynote speakers to the exhibit hall.

Don't miss out on keynote addresses by former U.S. President Bill Clinton's on Wednesday, March 6 at 1 p.m.; Eric Topol, MD, West endowed chair of innovative medicine at the Scripps Health Institute on Tuesday, March 5 at 8:30 a.m. and Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator for health IT on Thursday, March 7 at 8:30 a.m.

This year, the exhibit hall again offers the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion as well as new offerings including the Meaningful User Experience which brings together all the different certfiied solutions. The Knowledge Centers will focus on mobile health, clinical and business analytics and intelligence and ICD-10.

As you carefully plan your time in New Orleans, the following is a list of sessions we think rise above others when you consider the top priorities in healthcare today:

  • Innovative Approaches to Physician Engagement and Team Collaboration: March 5, 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
  • Stage 2 Meaningful Use: Tackling the Encryption Conundrum: March 4, 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
  • Innovation - A Look at mHealth's Moving Target: March 4,11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Health Information Exchange: Reality and Future: March 4, 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
  • Planning for Success: A Multi-level approach to tackling your ICD-10 transition: March 4, 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  • Data Governance: Foundation to Leveraging Data as an Asset: March 5, 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
  • Actionable Analytics for Value-Based Purchasing, Readmissions and Business Intelligence: March 6, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
  • Top Five Information Risk, Security, and Privacy Considerations for BYOD: March 6, 2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
 Get instant access to news from the meeting via our live coverage on Clinical-Innovation.net. Watch this newsletter for plenty of insights and information from HIMSS13.

Beth Walsh

Editor, Clinical Innovation + Technology

bwalsh@trimedmedia.com

Beth Walsh,

Editor

Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.

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