Strategic Planning

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.

Understand what is written – and what is not – in HIPAA requirements, says Chad Peterson, managing director at NetSPI.

The best way it can help is by not making the problem worse, says Andrew Eye, cofounder and CEO of ClosedLoop.ai.

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.  

Working for a nonprofit focused on saving lives and improving the quality of life, Carolina Nelson, the relief organization's LAC regional deputy director, says she found HIMSS a great space to understand the stakeholders and solutions that could support that mission.

The HIMSS Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model (C-COMM) encompasses health from prenatal to end-of-life care, explains Toni Laracuente, SVP and head of Analytics at HIMSS.

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."

When providers have conversations with patients and switch to lower-cost drugs, individuals are saving an average of $61 on prescriptions, says Dr. Andrew Mellin, CMIO at Surescripts.  

Telehealth providers have until August 12 to come into OCR compliance, with the end of PHE provisions, says HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Rainer.  

The health system has partnered to predict hospital load and then match it with the clinical team, says Dr. John Doulis, VP of data services and innovation at HCA Healthcare.