Industry Executives Weigh In on Health IT Issues at HIMSS13

Hear what industry leaders have to say about the state of Health IT

HIMSS 2013 may have come and gone but HIMSS Highlights live on. HIMSS highlights are produced by HITECH Answers and represent a series of  podcast interviews of C-level executives from leading health IT companies and agencies. It is always fascinating to hear what these leaders have to say about the current (and future) state of the industry. The interviews cover a range of topics including the latest health IT industry surveys, HIPAA Omnibus and data security, Interoperability and Big Data, and if the EHR/Health IT bubble will burst.

The audios can be heard throughout the broadcasting day on our Internet radio station, HealthcareNOWradio.com or you can listen below. To download any mp3, right-click on the audio player.

Lee Barrett, Executive Director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC).

Brad Benson, CEO of Health eFormatics discussing “year of the EHR switch.”

Kate Berry, CEO National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) discussing who they are and working with the ONC.

Kate Berry, CEO National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) discussing 3rd Annual Health IT Survey.

Gene Boerger, VP Product Management Emdeon and Dr. Steven Waldren, Sr. Strategist AAFP Center for Health IT discussing their HIMSS education session on improving outcomes with benchmarking data.

Rita Bowen, Sr. Vice President of HIM and Privacy Officer of HealthPort, discussing what one thing a practice should know about the Omnibus rule.

Dave Caldwell, CMO/EVP of Certify Data Systems discussing why HIE does not equal Interoperability.

Frances Dare, Managing Director at Accenture on recent Patient Engagement Survey.

Steve Fanning, Vice President Healthcare Industry Strategy for Infor discussing results of the HIMSS Annual Leadership Survey.

Matthew J. Hawkins, CEO of Vitera Healthcare Solutions discussing the “year of the EHR switch.”

James Hay, Head of Business Partnerships for SwiftKey on text-based natural language processing for EHRs

Steven Heck, President of Medsys Group and member of the HIMSS Analytics Board discussing Health IT Beyond the Boom.

Dr. Robert Hitchcock, CMIO of T-Systems  on Interoperability and Stage 2 Preparedness.

Mac McMillian, Chairman and CEO of CynergisTek and Chair of the HIMSS Privacy and Security Task Force on the number one challenge of data security.

Catherine Valyi, VP of Marketing at HealthPort discussing government and commercial provider audits.

Dr. Nick van Terheyden, CMIO of Nuance on his HIMSS experience.