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HIMSS 2021: Las Vegas

One of the largest in person healthcare conferences, since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, started this week

The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition kicked off Monday, August 9 to Friday, August 13 in Las Vegas. Last year Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), cancelled the event days before it was scheduled. 

This year HIMSS is offering a corresponding digital event for anyone cautious of onsite attendance. And for attendees in person, masks and proof of vaccination are required on the HIMSS21 campus and in all public spaces, as well as socially distanced chairs inside of sessions.  They created a “Safety Hub” page on their website to provide updates.

The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition has been running for 60 years, and this year added for the first time a digital healthcare program.  The event focusses on Healthcare Infrastructure and Information Management Systems and showcases the latest digitalizing healthcare.

Agilis sent Lauren Jensen, PhD and Ray Talbott to the conference this year to stay up to date on topics like Cybersecurity, Software as a Medical Device, Remote Patient Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence, and the overall healthcare landscape since the pandemic.

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The conference has over 500 educational sessions, over 200 exhibition sessions, over 30 networking events, and over 700 in person exhibiting companies. Here are a few items to highlight:

  • Opening Session: Preserving the Health of a Population — Early Lessons from a Global Pandemic Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, kicks things of in where he'll be moderating a slew of public health experts, including the top officials from the World Health Organization and India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in a conversation about keeping populations safe in a worldwide health emergency. The panel, which will focus on critical areas of concern across population health, and what stakeholders can do to address them.

  • Cybersecurity Forum Sessions: The conference has over 15 forums dedicated to talks on Cybersecurity.

  • Keynote Cybersecurity: With cybersecurity as the backbone to normal and safe operations at all healthcare organizations globally, it is critical that healthcare professionals have the latest knowledge to ensure risks and exposures to incidents like ransomware and others are minimized.  This panel, led by Admiral Mike Rodgers, former National Security Agency director under President Barack Obama, will provide an in-depth review of the cybersecurity challenges healthcare organizations are facing today. Keynote held Tuesday August 10.

  • Interoperability, National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Micky Tripathi, will be joining virtually to will give an overview of ONC's focus areas in a conversation with Daniel Jernigan, the acting public health science and surveillance deputy director at the CDC. This conversation will include reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic and priority focus areas for the Biden Administration. Answering the Call: The Importance of Interoperability Across the Spectrum in the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond will be held on Tuesday, August 10.

  • FDA, see Amy Abernathy, former acting commissioner and acting chief information officer of the Food and Drug Administration speaking on Regulations and Reimbursement: How to Navigate Compliance In an Uncertain World. This event will be held on Tuesday August 10.

  • Specialty programs: Accelerate Health, the innovation hub of HIMSS, is a two-day healthcare innovation forum that examines unconventional ideas, technologies and investments making waves in traditional care delivery systems, according to HIMSS. The will review the full digital health care landscape. The forum takes place Wednesday and Thursday during the conference.

  • Highlighting innovation, featuring 15-year-old innovator Gitanjali Rao, who has developed innovative tech solutions for some of the world's most pressing issues, including access to clean water and early diagnosis of prescription opioid addiction. Rao invented the Kindly app, which uses AI to detect and prevent cyberbullying and protect students. This keynote will be held Wednesday, August 11

  • On Friday morning, former governors Chris Christie, R-New Jersey, and Terry McAuliffe, D-Virginia, will share the stage for a fireside chat with a discussion around the pandemic, health policy development, infrastructure revitalization and other pressing issues facing America in 2021.

There are so many programs to cover and remember to Follow Agilis on LinkedIn to get daily updates from the conference.

Also, if you see a session you would to learn more about let us know and we will do our best to attend and provide insight.

 
 

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