Healthcare Innovation January 23, 2020
When pundits write post-conference blogs about their experience at the annual HIMSS conference, they often identify common themes that emerged from the week of sessions, as though the hive-mind of 40,000 people came together and determined new paradigms or directions for the health IT community to go. But perhaps as interesting as reading post-mortems is asking industry leaders beforehand what they expect to hear about at HIMSS weeks before the industry descends on Orlando from March 9 to 13.
As Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., notes, last year the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)released major draft rules on the eve of HIMSS and that ended up taking over a...