HIMSS09, 900 vendors, over 25,000 visitors.
I updated this on 15 April, with a couple more wrap ups and a podcast overview and of course videos from Matthew Holt, but also from EHRTV.
Pictures and Blogs
If you, like me, have not been there have a look at pictures on Healthcare IT News or on Medsphere.
Quite a lot has been written on HIMSS09. Here links to some of the blogs:
- Implementing EHRs/EMRs;
- HISTalk has 4: Before, Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3;
- Business Technology Blog;
- Health Populi (Jane Sarasohn-Kahn) on Day 1, Day 2, wrap up;
- John Halamka wrote down his observations;
- Mobihealthnews focuses on mobile and iPhone;
- the News Zealand NIHI had 2 “reporters”: kdayinformatix, HIMSS 2009 in Chicago, Blogging from HIMSS 09: Day 2, Blogging from HIMSS09, Chicago; and Prof. Jim Warren, Notes from HIMSS.
- the tweet stream at Twitter.
- and wrap ups by
- John Moore (Chilmark Research): HIMSS’09 & Depression, CCHIT and FOSS Meeting at HIMSS, HIMSS’09: Meetings of Interest;
- Healthcare IT News Day four of HIMSS09;
- Microsoft’s Bill Crounse;
- Joseph Conn in Modern Healthcare: Stimulus act keeps HIMSS attendance healthy;
- G. Laszlo’s blog, giving a nice overview of the articles written on Channelweb;
- Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders MediaHIMSS09, Recap: Stimulus, Interoperability, and More.
Here some details I noticed:
- CCHIT Roundtables at HIMSS 09: Interoperability Roadmap and Open Source Forum;
- Dell, Perot Partner On Health Care IT, Services, keeping in mind their recent agreement with Wal-Mart and eClinicWorks;
- International healthcare IT standards groups sign agreement;
- Sun Software Key to Electronic Medical Records Network;
- and the HIMSS Discussion Drafts on Meaningful Use.
To conclude
This beautiful picture of which Fred Trotter said:
“The pictures that result are a fitting visual analogy between the basic mindset and philosophy of the FOSS commercial EHR community and the proprietary EHR vendors.”
Lodewijk Bos
