Forbes February 24, 2017
Leah Binder

Every year the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) hosts one of the most influential annual conferences in the healthcare industry. This is a big extravaganza that’s focused on health information technology (IT). The 2017 meeting that concluded in Orlando this week had more than 40,000 attendees, an exhibit hall so vast it was impossible to see from one end to the other and an agenda that covered the gamut of issues in healthcare.

Lead medical assistant Josephine Chaghuza enters a patient’s vital signs into an electronic medical record (EMR) at a Community Clinic Inc. health center in Silver Spring, Maryland, on April 8, 2015. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Healthcare is infamously far behind in technological sophistication, so perhaps the...

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Topics: Big Data, CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, MACRA, Medicare, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Safety
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