As is probably going to forever be the case, much of my experience at HIMSS gets to benefit from the beauty of social media. Today was no different as their was the #HITsm chat where we played #HITsm account bingo. Somehow I ended up on stage competing against my fellow EMR and EHR writer, Jennifer Dennard, for one of the prizes. Happily she won. I cheered for her over me too. All in all it was a fun time hearing about the various people in the HITsm social media community.
The evening of day 2 was also highlighted by the New Media Meetup event. This is our 5th year organizing the event and I believe we can call it a great success. A big thanks to Stericycle Communication Solutions for sponsoring the event, and for everyone that attended. For those I didn’t really get a chance to see and talk with, let’s make up for it tomorrow. Although, as I always tell people, the best part of the event is that there are hundreds of amazing people you can meet.
Here were two comments attendees made to me about the event, “That conversation right there was more valuable to me than any of the sessions at HIMSS.” And then this one from someone who’s been to at least four of the meetups, “This is always my favorite event.” What a blessing for me to take part in such a tremendous HIMSS social media community.
Enough with my social media experience at HIMSS. Today I had a number of really interesting conversations. Some of them I’ll be saving for future posts. However, one thing stood out to me today in my discussions with a new EHR vendor called Viztek and the multiple EHR vendor, Allscripts.
When I decided to meet with Viztek, I was intrigued by the fact that they were just launching a new EHR software. I wanted to see who wave brave (or crazy depending on perspective) enough to launch a new EHR software at this point in the game. Are 300+ EHR vendors not enough? Plus, I thought the market was suppose to be contracting and not growing.
I was actually impressed by what I found at Viztek. No doubt, in the short time I had during HIMSS, I didn’t have time to dig in really deep to evaluate the breadth of the EHR they’ve created, it’s usability and feature set. Instead, with our short time I wanted to understand the why and EMR market conditions that prompted them to build and launch another EHR software.
What’s particularly interesting about Viztek is that they have a full PACS and RIS software system that they’ve already been selling for a long time. They saw offering an EHR software as a natural extension to this offering. Considering there’s still some growth available in …read more
