HIMSS has added a pre-conference mobile health symposium to the agenda for the HIMSS14 Annual Conference and Exhibition, giving mHealth advocates a reason for heading down early to the Sunshine State.
The daylong session on Sunday, February 23, kicks off a busy week for the mHIMSS chapter and for mHealth in general. Other events include education sessions tailored exclusively to mHealth topics, an update on Version 2 of the mHIMSS Roadmap, a Mobile Health Knowledge Center in the exhibit hall, results of the 3rd Annual Mobile Survey, and HIMSS Spot Mobile Meet-Ups.
In a recent blog on the mHIMSS website, David Collins, MHA, CPHQ, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, senior director of mHIMSS, said mHealth is making more of an impact on the healthcare landscape, as seen by its influence on the HIMSS14 agenda.
“I know from my interaction with the 4,000+ members of the HIMSS mHealth community the importance of and need for current and ongoing education related to the application of mobile to healthcare,” Collins wrote.
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The conference kicks off with a full slate of pre-conference symposia on Sunday, Feb. 23, in the Orange County Convention Center. This includes “Mobile Health: Opportunities, Challenges and Value Creation,” which takes place from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and begins with an opening keynote from Bakul Patel, senior policy advisor for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Other guest speakers during the day-long event include Robert Jarrin, senior director of government affairs for Qualcomm and a member of the FDASIA Workgroup; Brian Rothman, medical director of perioperative informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Marc Berger, vice president of real world data and analytics for Pfizer; and Shawn Jackman, manager of wireless product management and engineering for Kaiser Permanente.
The symposium, which takes place in Room 307A, offers attendees an update of key policy and regulatory issues affecting mHealth, advice on strategic considerations for implementing an mHealth program, and opportunities and challenges to establishing such a program in different clinical and non-clinical settings. It will also feature an update on mHealth projects around the world from Sinisa Vargo, DMD, director of the Croatian Health Insurance Fund.
mHealth will also figure prominently in the HIMSS14 education agenda, with several sessions focused on the topic. Among them are “Securing Patient Data in a Mobilized World” (Monday, Feb. 24, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Room 205A) and “Wearable Devices and Sensor Informatics for Pervasive Healthcare” (Thursday, Feb. 27, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Room 330A).
Date: February 10, 2014