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.

NEW ORLEANS—Transitioning from siloed imaging to an enterprise environment delivers multiple benefits and costs can be reduced by leveraging existing technology, according to a March 4 presentation at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

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) 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.