Hillary Rodham Clinton, former secretary of state and former U.S. Senator, delivers a keynote speech at HIMSS14. In her keynote address Clinton thanked attendees for coming together to modernize America's healthcare system and stressed the importance of working together despite partisan differences.
Ed Park, chief operating officer at athenahealth, speaks to a packed house about the importance of supply chain integration and consumer service experience at Wednesday's session What Healthcare Can Learn from Amazon.
Anantachai (Tony) Panjamapirom, consultant at The Advisory Board Company, speaks at Wednesday's session Thriving on the Meaningful Use Audit - Prepared Not Scared in which he discussed how a large health system develops its "Book of Evidence" and conducts an internal mock audit.
Andrew D. Boyd, MD, an assistant professor in the department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, speaks about the upcoming ICD-10 transition at Wednesday's session Mitigating Tools for ICD-10-CM Transition Through Convolution and Entanglement.
Michael Quinn, chief technology officer at Jefferson Radiology, the largest private radiology practice in New England, discusses the implementation of a new RIS that integrated eleven partners in four months. He spoke at the Wednesday session Lessons Learned: Connecting Eleven Partners in Four Months.
Members from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services discuss the Oct. 1, 2014 ICD-10 compliance date, along with key steps to ensure a successful transition, at Wednesday's session ICD-10 Compliance Date: Are You Ready to Transition?
Allen Hobbs, principal technology consultant at Kaiser Permanente, takes questions at Wednesday's session Breaking the Logjam: Achieving Device Interoperability and Data.
Laura Adams, president and CEO of Rhode Island Quality Institute, discusses the potential of PHIT tools to enable more informed, collaborative decision-making between the patient, the doctor, and the extended care team at Wednesday's session There's a Patient on the Care Team: Using Personal Health IT to Ensure the Patient is Included in Healthcare Decision-Making.
Heidi Fox, administrator at Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, describes the successes and challenges encountered by the Florida Health Information Exchange when creating a pilot project to transmit admission and discharge alerts from Hospitals to Payers. She spoke at Wednesday's session Using HIE to Transmit Event Alerts for Transitions of Care.
Doug Fridsma, chief science officer in the Office of the National Coordinator, speaks at Wednesday's session Where are We Headed? ONC's Interoperability Strategy and Standards Development Roadmap.
Omar Bouhaddou, director of health informatics with Hewlett Packard Federal Healthcare, speaks about the role of healthcare informatics in the transition from a medical model to a patient-centered model of care. He spoke at Wednesday's session The Important Role of Informatics in the Success of Healthcare IT Projects.
Milton Ochieng, co-founder of Lwala Community Alliance and gastroenterology fellow at Brown University, speaks about the overall impact of integrated mHealth technology at Wednesday's session Apps Save Lives: How mHealth Technology Improves Healthcare Quality Worldwide.
Gwendolyn Lohse, the Deputy Director of CAQH and the managing director of the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange, highlights the long-term need to integrate clinical and administrative data at Wednesday's session Improving the Revenue Cycle Through Operating Rules and Electronic Solutions.
Keith Griffin, MD, and Richard H. Capps Jr., MD, co-CMIOs at Novanth Health, which consists of over 360 physician practices, speak about Novanth's Meaningful Use initiatives at Wednesday's session Meaningful Use: Rapidly Engaging Your Organization.
Lygeia Ricciardi, director, office of consumer eHealth, office of the national coordinator for Health IT, HHS, speaks at Wednesday's session New Initiatives to Engage Consumers and Patients Through Technology. The session covered policy initiatives, standards development, and resources available to members of the private and public sectors from ONC.
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