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People have concerns about meeting government regulation requirements, particularly in light of deadlines that sometimes conflict, such as those for Stage 2 meaningful use and ICD-10 conversion. Karen DeSalvo, MD, understands that and is listening.
To Eric Dishman, healthcare is personal.
New this year at the 2014 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, YourTurn has a democratic spirit. The slate of discussions on Tuesday -- from patient ID to EHR usability to telemedicine -- was drawn from ideas submitted by conference attendees.
Anyone traversing the HIMSS14 Exhibit Hall knows it's massive -- 440,000 square feet to be exact. And all of it filled with the vim and vigor of more than 1,200 exhibitors and attendees numbering nearly 37,000 strong. It's hard to sum up the show floor buzz, but here's a snippet.
mHealth is creating buzz. For those who want to know what it's all about and find out the latest happenings in the mHeatlth world, the Mobile Health Knowledge Center at HIMSS14 is the place to be.
"There are a lot of providers out there who are feeling a lot of anxiety and a lot of pressure," admitted Mat Kendall, director of ONC's Office of Provider Adoption Support at HIMSS14 on Monday.
When Emma Cartmell worked in Great Britain, she was told that to get promoted, she had to keep her head down for 10 years and wait her turn. For a go-getter like Cartmell, that wasn't good enough.
Nearly 90 percent of eligible hospitals have received an EHR incentive payment, according to figures shared by officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Monday at HIMSS14.
To say that the developers of Lake Nona Medical City think big would be no exaggeration.
Aetna CEO Mark T. Bertolini believes that when times are tough, people want to hear the truth. In his Monday morning opening keynote here at HIMSS14, Bertolini was prepared to speak the unvarnished truth.