March 4, 2013,  3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | The ICD-10 clock is ticking! Join us to learn how we can help your entire organization streamline your transition efforts. From readiness assessments and project roadmap development to strategies for provider adoption, we have tools and services to help get your organization ready in time. Stop by to hear more.

March 4, 2013, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | This session examines the explosion of mHealth with product innovation, takes a "deep dive" into forces shaping the mHealth ecosystem, and illustrates the range of mHealth solutions displacing traditional healthcare delivery.

March 5, 2013, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Engaging physicians and stakeholders in change management and process improvement is challenging in a large, geographically disperesed organization. This session provides innovative tools and strategies for overcoming this challenge.

Claron Technology will debut its new BlackBerry 10 app for the Nil family of medical imaging viewers at the 2013 Healthcare Information and ManagementSystems Society conference in New Orleans.

When it comes to mobile access to patient data, CIOs have two choices: Provide a secure access method, or continue to plug the hole in the dike with their fingers—and pray. With smartphone use among physicians at 98%, according to a 2012 report from Spyglass Consulting, attending and referring physicians who find themselves locked out of mobile access to patient data are likely to be looking for workarounds to circumvent hospital policy.

When Robert London, MD, received a phone call from an executive recruiter who suggested that he interview for a position at Walgreens, he was flabbergasted. “I wondered what I was going to do,” he recalls. “Would I stand at the door and greet people? Let them know about a new shade of nail polish?”

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.

While the frequency of healthcare deals held steady through the final three months of 2012, companies engaged in fewer high-ticket megadeals, according to Healthcare M&A Watch, a report series that examines trends in U.S. mergers and acquisitions.