Healthcare DIVE March 15, 2018
Jeff Byers

Repurposing old technologies was an underlying theme for some 44,000 health IT professionals attending this year’s HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas.

Former Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt may have summed it up best.

“Run to the cloud,” Schmidt said during his standing-room only keynote address.

While spoken in 2018, attendees could’ve very well heard that same sentence in 2011. But now, EHR vendors are zeroing in on products that emphasize population health data and customizable platform services.

“What may be old in some sectors of the economy can appear new in healthcare, as this sector is woefully behind most other sectors, including migration to cloud and cloud-based services,” John Moore, founder...

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Topics: Cloud, Conferences / Podcast, EMR / EHR, Population Health Mgmt, Technology, Trends
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