HIMSS21

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the health system was able to go live at 18 sites in five states using a virtual command center. At HIMSS21, its CIO will explain how.

Whether their skepticism is from a lack of interest or a lack of trust, it's possible – and valuable – to get clinicians enthusiastic about data-driven medicine, experts will show at HIMSS21.

In a HIMSS21 session, two experts will weigh in on the importance of using holistic frameworks to shore up cybersecurity.

On location in Las Vegas, HIMSS21 Digital Ambassador and "Most Connected Man on Earth" Chris Dancy shares some of the highlights of the upcoming HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition.

At HIMSS21, a radiologist will describe recent efforts to define a common ontology of image labeling, with the goal of helping clinicians across specialties better understand a patient's full picture.

"You have to address the people involved in the use of the tool, and more importantly those involved in the processes around medical devices and the tools to monitor and secure them," says one expert in a preview of his HIMSS21 presentation.

In advance of his HIMSS21 session, a senior manager explains how the health system conducted 1.38 million ambulatory visits in 2020.

"Healthcare IT leaders need to understand the broad range of technologies at use across a hospital and assess which of these systems and machines they would detect attacks against, and where they would be blind."

The health system's manager of information security previews his upcoming HIMSS21 session, discussing the device ecosystem and best practices to defend it.

Reenita Das, partner and SVP for healthcare and life sciences at Frost and Sullivan, said that femtech companies only accounted for 1.8% of total digital health investments in 2020.