From HIMSS10 3/3/2010 by Anticlue

All in all it was a good conference over at HIMSS 2010. I got to see old colleagues and catch up, volunteer and coordinate at a couple of events, attend some good educational sessions, and spent a day of the vendor floor. Everyone made it home safe whether driving or flying.

Among other activities, I had the chance to engage in good discussion on ambulatory emr installation between those of us in Florida. The discussion ranged in barriers to adoption for the stimulus package. The tripping points seem to be the same, so look forward to an upcoming blog post.

As always the vendor floor at HIMSS is an educational experience in itself, over the next couple of weeks I'll be adding to my vendor spotlight posts, probably encompassing 6 overall - give or take a few. For the vendor hall, I have to say that those in the C building didn't get the "plush" seats. The traffic wasn't the same as the B building. Additionally, the vendors focused upon the suits, so I was able pursue quite undisturbed.

Highlights from the Vendor Floor

• The transcription vendors seemed to have increased in booth size, Crescendo, Nuance
• Epic had the most be visitors, followed a close second by Allscripts
• HL7 Session on Semantic Interoperability was well delivered and the analogies where ideal for such a confusing topic
• 3M with the Nascar was marketing genious for the South
• Beacon Partners layout was the best of the consulting firms, and they had insightful things to say
• iPods and iPads where the giveaways of choice this year
• I picked up the 2D barcodes on the patient arm band from Zebra. These left more space for larger font print on patient wrist bans., and a lot more barcodes, as it is the size of a dime.
• McKesson's booth was not the blaring look at me of past years, although the color scheme remained the same. I think my eyes are now just used to the alert and avoiding the visual noise.
• GE's booth was massive with an upstairs and downstairs. Appeared to have an integrated view of the product and clinical engineering offerings
• Siemens had two different booths, one from their Products (Soarian, Invision), the other for clinical engineering and pacs
• Rubbermaid had a good carts on wheels offerings, but the wheels on the devices didn't look robust enough for speed bumps of carpeted floors.
• Motion Computing wasn't as packed as in past years.
• Dell's both had a Perot Consulting component, in addition to a Microsoft Surface and devices
• The HIE was definitely work the 20 minutes
• I'm wondering if Microsoft will have the biggest floor space next year just looking at the square footage of the sentillon and Microsoft booths.
• CSC really kicked it up a notch for the Healthcare Vertical Offering.

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