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Carla Smith, MA, CNM, FHIMSS, Executive Vice President of HIMSS, previews areas new to the conference this year including the Cybersecurity Command Center and the HIMSS Health IT Value Suite.

Mike Gentile, Executive Vice President of Innovation & Security at Auxilio and speaker at the 2015 Privacy & Security Forum in San Diego, discusses benchmarks for hospital security budgets and readying your organization for security success.

Sandra Vance, MHA, Senior Director, Interoperability Initiatives at HIMSS, highlights what attendees can expect from this year's Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS15.

The top three vote-getters across three categories will be honored at the H.I.T. Men & Women ceremony, sponsored by awards co-founder Emids, during the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Julie Massey, CMIO at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, shares health IT accomplishments and goals, and discusses progress with meaningful use.

Jim Saul, CIO at Great Plains Health in North Platte, Nebraska, talks about goals for consolidating to a single EMR solution and reports on the organization's meaningful use attestation.

Jan Oldenburg, author of Engage! Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement, discusses her book and the great opportunity for patient engagement in the rapidly evolving digital healthcare solutions and mHealth app markets.

Revisit what some hospital CIOs identified as their key challenges last year. From standardization of workflow processes to increasing compliance demands to concerns about privacy and security, CIOs had a full plate in 2014.

Gary Light, VP/CIO at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper, Indiana, talks about IT goals for 2015 and offers advice to fellow CIOs.

Rafael Grossmann, MD, FACS, surgeon at EMMC in Bangor, Maine, describes his introduction to Google Glass and its application to the healthcare environment.