HIMSS07 Is Over, Now What?
March 5th, 2007 by Jon Mertz
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The HIMSS annual conference has now passed. The presentations are over; the exhibitor booths are gone; and the attendees are back to work. It will be interesting to measure the impact of HIMSS on initiatives with the thousands of healthcare provider attendees or with the hundreds of healthcare vendor exhibitors. What will change? What new thoughts will be considered? What new solutions will be considered? What existing solutions will be re-considered?
From our vantage point, there were several themes evident in our various discussions with attendees.
- EMR / EHR: How do we integrate to hospitals, clinics, labs, and imaging centers? What is the best approach?
- Read a best practices white paper entitled What Is Your EMR Connectivity Strategy? Defining the Best Attributes to Approaching a Connected Physician Community.
- Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and Continuity of Care Document (CCD): How do these new standards impact EMR integration efforts?
- For vendors, buy or build a healthcare interface solution? There is so much flexibility with the “healthcare standards” so how do we focus, adapt, or handle integration?
- Answer five questions outlined in a white paper entitled Before You Build a Healthcare Communication Subsystem…
- Simplicity, speed of healthcare interfacing: How can we build healthcare interfaces simply with limited or hard-to-find resources and build them quickly?
- Review solutions available to speed the healthcare interfacing process.
The themes that you heard or championed may be different. Please feel free to post your insights as a comment. We welcome the interaction.
We found the dialogue at HIMSS extremely valuable. The important element now is to do something with what each of us learned and apply it in our initiatives. Next year, we can revisit how much progress was made.
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