HIMSS08 Interoperability Showcase Applications
This year, for the first time, you can apply to participate in the HIMSS08 Interoperability Showcase online!
Application Registration opened 07/15/07 and closed 09/28/07.
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HIMSS 2007 Interoperability Showcase—The largest multi-vendor prototype ever built!
The Interoperability Showcase demonstrated multiple health information exchanges using clinical scenarios. These scenarios were focused on clinician and patient access and information sharing across the full continuum of care. The demonstration included real world applications including electronic health records (EHRs) from 51 vendors to the 2007 Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS07, Feb. 25 – March 1 in New Orleans. Illustrating the benefits of managing personal healthcare, HIMSS07 attendees tracked their EHRs through this interactive, 10,000-square-foot exhibit, which featured cutting-edge technology and standards.
The showcase highlighted the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework for delivering interoperability across local, regional and national health information networks. IHE is a global initiative that creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly—from application to application, system to system and setting to setting—across multiple healthcare enterprises.
FAST FACTS – 2007 HIMSS Multi-RHIO Interoperability Showcase
- 10,000 square feet of showcase space
- 15 percent of the total show conference, or more than 3,600 attendees, visited the 2007 HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
- 76 participating organizations with 51 vendors demonstrated interoperability among 74 health information technology (IT) systems
- Secured Health Information Exchange with broad content
- New Directions Focus (Life Sciences [Bio-Pharma], PIX/PDQ v3.0, ELINCS Lab)
- HITSP Interoperability Specifications
- Clinical data exchange among patient care devices was demonstrated for the first time showing devices used in both the OR and ICU
- Financial and administrative systems for billing and claims attachments (CAQH/CORE)
- Clinical scenarios focusing on clinician and patient access, and information sharing across the full continuum of care
- Forty nine (49) educational sessions presented
- 14 clinical scenarios demonstrated interoperability across 1) multiple products, 2) EHR and PHR systems and 3) enterprises care delivery settings
Visitors to the 2007 Interoperability Showcase included:
- Almost 700 attendees who created and tracked their own electronic health record
- Five international delegations: France, Germany, Holland, China, and Japan Congressional leaders from six states including representatives from Project HITCH
- Maj. Gen. Gale S. Pollock, Interim (as of April 9, 2007) Surgeon General of the Army
- A delegation of public health officials, brought by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to see Life Science and HITSP Biosurvelliance demonstration scenarios
- Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, Tuesday’s keynote speaker
- Robert Kolodner, MD, Interim Director, Office of National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, one of Thursday’s keynote speakers
- John Loonsk, MD, Director, Office of Interoperability and Standards, ONC, visited the showcase several times to view all the scenarios
The showcase theatre extended the educational aspect with presentations from industry leaders on standards and interoperability as addressed by case studies, national initiatives, regional projects and IHE integration profiles.
NEW! Online Participant Application
Join our Interoperability Showcase Team of Experts for an Informational Webinar with Q&A session:
- Learn how IHE started and has grown
- Explanation of Participant Levels and associated benefits
- See the Attendee's Point of View
- Register for the Wednesday, August 15, 2 PM (Central) Demo
There's so much more to know about the HIMSS08 Interoperability Showcase.
Now is the Time to Participate
Over 3,600 attendees visited the Interoperability Showcase in 2007 and 700 of them created and tracked their own EHR-reinforcing their need for information on interoperability and the transformation of a unified healthcare system.
Learn more about the Interoperability Showcase!
For more information contact Deborah Caruso at 312.915.9505 or dcaruso@himss.org.
“Interoperability is one of the fundamental principles we need to have. Although we can get some benefit from having Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records, if there are isolated islands of information they will not allow us to achieve the kinds of improvement and transformation that we can get by having them interoperable and sharing that information.”
Robert M. Kolodner, MD
National Coordinator for Health IT
Department of Health and Human Services