LAS VEGAS – Fairfax County Health Department in Northern Virginia was in a unique position: It’s the largest county and health district in the state, and only one of three that’s locally administered. It also experienced a wake-up call during the COVID-19 pandemic: The outbreak created chaos at the local level in the state, and […]
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare data needs to be modernized, and any modernization effort needs funding to be viable. Advocacy is critical in this regard, and one advocacy campaign, centering on public health surveillance, has seen success in recent years.
LAS VEGAS – HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf kicked off the HIMSS25 Executive Summit here today letting the sold-out audience know that the forum would help them answer the question of how to integrate AI and handle change management. AI was on the minds of many of the healthcare executives who attended and those […]
LAS VEGAS – Patti Phillips, cofounder and CEO of ROI Institute, looked at the value of investment and how to reposition the return on investment mindset during the HIMSS25 Executive Summit here on Monday. Phillips often called upon the more than 500 people who attended the summit to answer how they measure ROI. Impact is […]
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare, as a business, lives and dies on the data. The goal of public health data modernization is to move from silos, brittle public health data systems to connected, resilient and sustainable “response-ready” systems that can help to solve problems before they happen.