Conference Coverage Highlights From HIMSS 2010 - Part 2

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference brings together more than 28,000 healthcare industry IT experts to see offerings from over 900 exhibitors. It is the largest annual gathering in the healthcare information technology field. This year's exhibit takes on special significance given federal incentives to accelerate adoption of information technology in the healthcare arena. Dr. Matthew Birnholz hosts this second of two programs from the conference.

Guests include:

John Zaleski, VP - Clinical Applications, Nuvon

James King, MD - Past President, American Academy of Family Physicians (interviewed at the Shared Health exhibit)

Michael Mirro, MD, FACC, FACP - Chair, Health Informatics Committee, American College of Cardiology (interviewed at the Medical Informatics Engineering Exhibit)

John Stanley - SVP and CIO of Riverside Health System, Newport News, VA. (interviewed at the Siemens exhibit)

H. Stephen Lieber, CAE - President and CEO, HIMSS

John Mattison, MD - Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California

Christopher Mertens - VP Healthcare Business Group, Hewlett-Packard

Steve Aylward - General Manager, Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft