HIMSS19

While the HIMSS Global Conference is often thought of as a health IT conference for physicians and CIOs, the annual event actually caters to a wide variety of stakeholders in healthcare including entrepreneurs, investors, informaticists, and a wide variety of clinicians and executives.

Healthcare entrepreneur and patient advocate Kate Milliken shares her journey of starting a business and her experience as a patient advocate for those managing MS, as well as what she’ll be doing with HIMSS TV at HIMSS19 in Orlando.

Charlotte Yeh, chief medical officer at AARP, discusses the assets of age and which technologies could help address isolation and loneliness. 

At HIMSS19, University of Chicago Medicine's chief experience officer will describe an ongoing coaching program that aims to restore the connection between humans and the healthcare technologies serving them. 

Dr. Courneya will speak at HIMSS19 in Orlando at “Teaming up for change: Virtual care lessons.” 

Startup founders warn their peers to think carefully about deploying distributed ledger technologies.

The right combination of technology can reduce a 4 to 6 month process to 18 to 21 days, CEO Anthony Begando says.

At HIMSS19, Dr. Subha Airan-Javia and Dr. Nehal Patel will discuss the pros and cons to building versus buying new hospital innovations. 

At HIMSS19, ACT | The App Association's Brian Scarpelli will lay out the details of what he calls a "sea change" in CMS' policy toward remote patient monitoring.

Sara Vaezy, the chief digital strategy officer at Providence-St. Joseph Health, says everything else follows from an accurate, up-to-date and user-friendly directory.