Healthcare IT News February 20, 2019
Info-blocking ruled the day, while APIs, FHIR, artificial intelligence and virtual reality were also prominent themes at this year’s Global Conference.
I went to HIMSS19 last week, like a whole lot of other people. As Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication, we actually start covering the conference well in advance and this time around that meant a first article way back in August, believe it or not, about the new HIMSS Circles communities.
Fast forward to late Friday before the Global Conference and word got out that the Office of Management and Budget finished work on the eagerly-anticipated information blocking rule — thereby signaling the possibility that it would bring the new rule to Orlando.
And while the...