Policy and Legislation

HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Task Force serves as an information conduit for 57 chapters nationwide on issues such as health equity, says Lawrence Voyten, HIMSS board member and national advocacy chair.

Dr. Brian Lein, DHA assistant director of healthcare administration, said one system now covers every patient – about 2.7 million beneficiaries.  

J29 works with "HIMSS Gives Back" in the Chicago area, leveraging public and private relationships, as well as the government’s role in social impact success, says president and founder Tracy Mills and VP of HHS programs Nick Vass.

The power of innovation has no more important place than in addressing cancer, says Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society, during a discussion with ONC's Stephen Konya and Moffitt Cancer Center's Santosh Mohan about the public-private collaboration.  

Carium general counsel Matthew Fisher previews his HIMSS23 panel explaining the ways the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision affects healthcare data and access.

Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) members Scott McKeithen, Marleen Welsh and Charles Baschnagel preview their panel at HIMSS23 on the ways biosurveillance helps public health officials during pandemics.

Two U.S. military health IT experts talk about natural language processing, which digests countless healthcare documents to assist them in job efficiency.

Ellison Institute director of policy, Gabriel Seidman, talks about the institute's work in creating a country-wide enterprise architecture for healthcare data that encompasses clinical, social determinants and public health data.  

Saudi Ministry of Health advisor for digital transformation Dr. Ahmed Balkhair explains how value-based healthcare helps improve the output of care and quality.

EHR vendors must create solutions that work both for health systems and governments, according to Frank Hester, TPP's CEO and founder.