Bernie Monegain
As soon as he stepped onto the stage at HIMSS13 on Monday morning to deliver his keynote, Ochsner Health System President and CEO Warner Thomas acknowledged he might have preferred to follow a speaker other than New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Deloitte, which bills itself as the world's largest health consultancy, and Intermountain Healthcare, known around the world for its pioneering work in healthcare informatics, are teaming up to help transform healthcare.
Joseph Kvedar, MD, founder and director of the Center for Connected Health, talks with Bernie Monegain about the Center's mobile health plans and describes the concept of "Wellocracy."
Lawrence Losey, MD, talks about his role as CMIO at Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick, Maine.
Previously intended for Nashville, the HIMSS Innovation Center will be within the Global Center for Health Innovation, and it will house the Interoperability Showcase.
The CHIME/HIMSS John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year, James Turnbull, who oversees all things IT at University of Utah Health Care, is informed by experience he gained at several other healthcare systems before coming to Utah five years ago. His stints, including one in Canada, exposed him to a number of ways healthcare systems - and health IT teams - can be effective.
A recent market forecast on wearable devices and smart glasses, coupled with 2012 venture capital investments in mHealth at nearly $908 million, indicate the market is hot and likely to get hotter.
When Medicomp chief executive officer David Lareau hears U.S. chief technology officer Todd Park talk about the need to find the right technology to set data free and make it usable, Lareau wants to tell him he has just the thing.
Two Stage 6 hospitals, one in Manhattan and the other in Honolulu - Mount Sinai Medical Center and Hawai'i Pacific Health - are due to pick up their 2012 Enterprise HIMSS Davies Awards of Excellence at the 2013 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, March 3-7.
Healthcare IT insiders regard interoperability as the key to effective health information exchange, and some might say, the hardest to pin down thus far. Industry leaders agree there can be no true exchange without interoperability. How can healthcare transformation occur unless doctor A's EHR can process the information received from doctor B's EHR?