On the first day of the HIMSS Connected Health Conference, leaders from various healthcare segments came together to push towards a unified goal: to better connect systems and people, and better protect patients’ health information.
These feelings were expressed both from the morning’s keynote speakers, and again in the form of two industry surveys that representatives from the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) discussed at the conference on Nov. 9 at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Md. (the HIMSS Connected Conference combines the mHealth Summit from previous years with the new Cybersecurity and Population Health Summits, all under the HIMSS umbrella).
H. Stephen Lieber, HIMSS President and CEO, kicked off the conference saying that the program’s changes this year are due to a greater recognition of the empowerment of individuals, which he said is the key to new healthcare as we move more towards self-connected care. Lieber specifically mentioned patient-generated health data (PGHD), noting that while it doesn’t get a lot of credibility from those who only believe in traditional medicine, it is a valuable source of data—”maybe the best source of real-time clinical data.” For the full article click here
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