Policy and Legislation

Hospitals can adapt by rolling out FHIR APIs for patient access, says ZeOmega associate VP of interoperability strategy Michael Gould and VP of advanced analytics Pravin Pant.

Connecticut Office of Health Strategy is a think tank around health policy in the state, says Sumit Sajnani, health information technology officer at the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy.  

HIMSS23 saw the launch of the Native American Indigenous People's Community and next year, says Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS, "we hope to have an even louder voice in international engagement."

Health IT modernization effort is underway, while honoring the data sovereignty of the separate communities, says A.C. Locklear, the board's federal relations director.  

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses using data to determine patients at risk and programs that will make a difference.

ComplyAssistant CEO Gerry Blass and University Hospital CISO Frank Sinatra discuss the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) guide, which aims to prevent threats coming from phishing, ransomware, data loss and attacks against connected medical devices.  

One health record connects a fragmented health system where disparities are an issue, says Mitchell Thornbrugh, CIO of the Indian Health Service.

IT, telehealth, clinical decision support, wellness tools and diagnostics all fall into the same category, says Jessica Hauflaire, COO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Digital therapeutics consist of software as a direct intervention to treat, manage or prevent medical conditions.

Alan Lavergne, VP of advocacy for the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of HIMSS, discusses the five Texas chapters collaborating to advance health equity with the state's legislature, and talks about winning an award recognizing his efforts.

The regional director for Europe at the World Health Organization discusses the WHO partnership with HIMSS to leverage the collective power of their stakeholders to deploy tools to decrease health inequities.