data management

While HIEs and TEFCA represent important interoperability advances, William Cavanaugh, Concord Technologies CEO, says health systems also need to access documents that contain important context for clinicians, rather than just data.

It's not how many people you need to be on staff, the question is how effectively you utilize your staff with the various functions that you need, and what you outsource, says Lee Kim, senior principal for cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.

Amid the trend of healthcare companies leveraging AI, Jerry Villacres, Manifold's VP of Sales, Cloud Solutions, cautions that they must first implement a sound data strategy to make the most out of those tools.

Wolters Kluwer vice president of medical informatics Howard Strasberg highlights the topics he and his colleague will discuss at HIMSS24, including data transfer between EHRs and the cloud and FHIR-based clinical decision support standards.  

In-Young Choi, director at Catholic Information Convergence Institute at CMC in South Korea, discusses how data from eight hospitals is converged and distributed to meet an individual department's needs, aiding in the creation of AI solutions.  

Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, relays the lessons learned within the digital health sector from the pandemic and how access to technology and data can make healthcare more sustainable and accessible to ensure health equity.

John Nebergall, chief operating officer of Consensus Cloud Solutions, discusses his experience at HIMSS Global Conference and what he's learned at pre-HIMSS sessions pertaining to interoperability and AI use in a secure environment.

Dr Cátia Pinto, international affairs unit coordinator at SPMS in Portugal, discusses the country’s digital health infrastructure, its use of EU recovery and resilience funds and the creation of an international health data space.

Aaron Miri, SVP and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health, discusses lessons his organization learned from HIMSS23 cybersecurity forum and how it's leveraging that info to keep patient data secure.

Gregg Church, president of 4medica, talks about how the government should work with healthcare vendors to simplify data capture and eliminate the growing problem of medical record duplication between health systems.