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HIMSS – day three

I spent the final day working through the second hall of exhibits. The interoperability showcase was very interesting, in particular a demonstration of medical devices interoperating with an EMR: devices that measure patient vitals (blood pressure, pulse, oxygenation), alarms etc, feed their data directly into the patient’s record in the hospital EMR.

Medical devices reporting data into an EMR

An amazing demo from Palantir, who are conveniently located a few miles from my home, showing how public health data is aggregated, analyzed, sliced and diced; a great tool for epidemiology. Merge demonstrated a federated view of radiology images in DICOM format sourced from various PACS systems.

HIMSS provides wonderful opportunities to network. I had lunch with a representative of the California Association of Public Hospitals and we discussed opportunities provided by ARRA refunding and California LECs and RECs. I look forward to working further with the CAPH and thank you to my lunch guest. My collaboration with the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGC), provided great networking opportunities: I chatted briefly with Adrian Gropper ; per David Kibbe‘s suggestion, I met Randall Oates of Soapware, and ended the evening dining out with another CGC member, my mentor, Dr Steven Waldren.

March 3, 2010 Posted by jgershater | Health Information Technology | CAPH, clinical groupware collaborative, HIMSS, palantir, soapware | Leave a Comment

HIMSS 2010 – day one

At the opening reception, Sunday night, I finally met Martin Pellinat CEO of VisionTree, with whom I have had many conversations as I participate in the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGC).

Similarly on the first day, I met the team from Resilient Networks, another CGC member company.

Needless to say networking opportunities abound at HIMSS.

Over 900 companies and 30 000 people at one convention took me a few hours to comprehend and absorb. I attended a very informative session on Telehealth and mobile devices; followed by session presented by Kaiser Permanente on patient portals (or tethered PHRs).

The exhibit hall is enormous thus I only managed to visit one quarter of the companies present.

The evening ended with dinner and a concert by Grammy award winner Colbie Caillat at the Georgia aquarium, courtesy of MEDecision.