HIMSS21

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.

At HIMSS21, a leader from Brigham and Women's Digital Innovation Hub will explain more about its hospital-wide crowdsourcing initiative, designed to elicit problem-solving ideas from frontline staff.

In advance of his appearance at HIMSS21, Admiral Michael S. Rogers, who also served as commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, says the government and private sector must work more closely and collaboratively.

At HIMSS21, consultant and patient advocate Laura Jantos will offer personal perspective on the "huge opportunity" to develop tools that help all patients to engage meaningfully with their own care.