The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference was a huge event that took place in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, with 44,000 participants staying across 90 hotels, visiting 1,200 exhibitors. As a first-timer, I took the seasoned participants’ suggestions for comfortable footwear and laced up my sneakers to traverse the expanse of hallways, exhibit halls, and meeting rooms, inhaling all I could. The tagline for the year was “Champions of Health Unite.”
March 20, 2019 by Aite-Novarica Media
IT leaders can’t launch new initiatives without the support—and funding—provided by the board of directors. But communication between these two parties isn’t always smooth. More and more boards understand the importance of investing in technology and related security efforts. What they might not understand, however, is the more complex, nuanced aspects of these initiatives.
March 19, 2019 by Robert McIsaac
Maintaining and improving market position for life insurers is becoming increasingly difficult in the face of persistently low interest rates and competition with (and for) distribution channels. What’s more, insurers are finding themselves having to accommodate generational shifts, an increased importance of BI and analytics, and a proliferation of data from IoT and wearable devices.
March 15, 2019 by Jeff Goldberg
