Mike Miliard

At HIMSS17, clinicians get a primer on details of two of the more IT-focused components.

At the HL7 booth, interoperability guru Micky Tripathi touts progress made on public APIs.

"Healthcare is late to the game in terms of user experience," said Lorraine Chapman, senior director of healthcare at Macadamian, a UX design and development firm, at HIMSS17 on Monday.

During a packed ONC Town Hall, officials report progress on EHR safety, precision medicine, interoperability, 21st Century Cures and more.

As AI and machine learning evolve and start to make their mark on healthcare, "we're not trying to replace the human interaction, we're trying to augment it," AI developer says.

Many health organizations still do not appreciate the risks they are facing from determined hackers.

At the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum, the infamous former black-hat showed how social engineering puts systems at risk -- and how to build a human firewall to protect against it.

The settlement comes three years after two laptops were stolen from Horizon BCBSNJ's Newark headquarters. According to New Jersey officials, health data was left vulnerable as it was password-protected but not encrypted, as required by HIPAA and HITECH.

Hosted in Washington by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the event aims to find ways to deploy the emerging technology in healthcare to solve issues such as identity management, data aggregation and more.

Interoperability group recommends that IT developers standardize features to manage clinical messages and their attachments.