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Sunday at HIMSS: The Show Before the Show


January 1, 2008

Attendees looking for extended, in-depth educational sessions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference & Exhibition could have that experience if they show up a day early.

Sunday, Feb. 24, the day before the big show's official opening, features more than a dozen workshops, symposia and special interest mini-conferences.

All-day or half-day workshops will focus on such issues as information security, understanding "lean" principles in health care, project management and I.T.-enabling technologies, as well as preparation for HIMSS' Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems examination.

Sunday also features physician, nursing informatics, payer, supply chain, clinical engineering, RHIO/HIE, pharmacy, and business information systems symposia that focus on issues relevant to those disciplines.

Also on the agenda are the annual MS-HUG Tech Forum for users of Microsoft technology and the CHIME-HIMSS Spring CIO Forum.

The conference's formal opening on Monday, Feb. 25, will feature Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (R-Tenn.) as the first of six keynote speakers during the following four days.

Other keynoters confirmed or invited include Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt; Robert Kolodner, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology in HHS; Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution Health; Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO at Google Inc., and Steven Levitt, author of "FREAKONOMICS" and a professor of economics at the University of Chicago.

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