From Meaningful Use to ICD-10, CPOE and discussions of the most effective method for health information exchange, there are enough initiatives happening in healthcare IT at once to make one’s head spin. Although every initiative in the health IT space is worthy of attention, it ...
What was your impression of social media at HIMSS11?
Almost a month after HIMSS, things are beginning to settle and clear ground for the year ahead. Since the conference, I’ve had the opportunity to chat with a number of health IT professionals who attended HIMSS11. The conversations have been tremendously helpful in digesting the ...
Popular tracks at HIMSS11? Poll Results
HIMSS11 is behind us, and as many of you have indicated on Twitter and Facebook, it is likely you are finishing up your HIMSS follow-up/to-do list of LinkedIn network requests, summary blog posts and network follows. Although the excitement leading up to HIMSS has diminished, ...
Will you be at HIMSS11? Poll Results
The 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition is approaching quickly and there is a distinct energy in the discussions around the anticipated focus of this year’s show. Makes sense; a lot has happened in health IT in the last year: Meaningful Use Stage 1 was ...
Does Education Empower?
On Wednesday, e-pateints.net posted a guest blog by Cynthia Lott Vogel titled, “I’m getting impatient”: an empowered patient guest post, that discussed her personal experience as a patient diagnosed with a number of health ailments, and her physicians’ ...