HIMSS15: Opening Session and Speaker Highlights

April 13, 2015

03:50 PM

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Clad in signature bowtie and winning smile, healthcare technology champion Farzad Mostashari, MD, flashed a thumbs up at the HIMSS15 opening keynote National Perspective on Evolving and Emerging Healthcare Delivery and Payment.

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Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Utah, spoke about the role of EHR infobuttons and their relation to Meaningful Use certification at the Monday preconference symposium Innovations that Bring Clinical Value to the End-User.

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Michael Earl, Emeritus Professor of Information Management, Oxford University, told healthcare CIOs they must "sharpen their saws" to be innovative, strategic and collaborative while projecting confidence and invoking effective problem solving skills. He spoke at the CIO Forum session Charting a Course for Becoming the Health IT Leader 3.0 of the Future.

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HIMSS Media presented the Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit in Chicago on Sunday. Henry Powderly, Managing Editor of Healthcare Finance, moderated the Revenue Cycle Roundtable . From left to right the roundtable included:

Henry Powderly Managing Editor, Healthcare Finance

Lori Szymonowicz, Senior Director, Patient Financial Services at Jefferson University Hospitals

Cherilyn Warner, Revenue Cycle Director, Holzer Health System

Melanie Hennessy, Director, Accounting Shared Services, Walgreens

Robert Wagner, Senior Director, Revenue Cycle, Nebraska Methodist Health System

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Albert R. Zimmerli, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Intermountain Healthcare, addressed the attendees of the Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit at McCormick Place on Sunday. The event focused on best practices, case studies and real-world solutions.

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Daniel Kraft, MD, an early adopter of Google Glass, energized a crowd of 600 CIOs on Sunday. He called the current state of healthcare technology a "medical revolution".

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Ahmed Albaiti, Founder and CEO of Medullan, delivered the opening keynote at the Mobile Health Symposium. Albaiti said clinicians have to be the industry's disruptors – much like Amazon, Uber and Nest.

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Deborah Wolf, RN, Manager of Registries at Lakeland HealthCare, and Michael Getty, Manager of Integrated Analytics at Lakeland HealthCare, spoke at the Quality Symposium on Sunday. The session, Improving Care Outcomes while Achieving Compliance across the Enterprise, focused on evidence-based quality improvement strategies.

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The Venture+ Forum kicked off on Sunday with a session presented by Katya Hancock, Director of Strategic Partnerships, StartUp Health. The session, StartUp Health Insights Annual Look Back: 2014 – The Year Digital Health Broke Out, featured a snapshot of record start up deals and funding.

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Susan Woods, MD, MPH, Director of Patient Experience, Connected Health, Veterans Health Administration, spoke at the Patient Engagement Symposium. The session was titled Access to Data - Patient Portals, Blue Button, Open Notes.

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The Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap proposed by ONC in late January has received positive feedback according to Erica Galvez, Interoperability Portfolio Manager, ONC. She spoke at the session Advancing Interoperability and Standards.