The plane has left the Orlando airport, and I’m looking back at the past week at the 2017 annual meeting of HIMSS, the annual health IT conference that has been my pleasure and (foot) pain to attend for the past two+ decades (for real).
Walking the exhibition floor, I encountered some new flavors of imaging that went way beyond bits and bytes, data and technology.
These images spoke to me of health, vitality, and life. I’m sharing them with you here, with no intention of selling you company products or services but simply sharing some images that speak to these themes.
To me, this year’s HIMSS conference was more patient- and people-centered than at any other time in my attending the meeting. I’m gratified and glad to see these themes that I believe, uncynically, indicate a sea-change in healthcare morphing to, essentially, health.














I'm gratified to be named on
I’m celebrating America’s 250th birthday both patriotically and professionally, honored that the NLM included my 2010 paper, “How Smartphones Are Changing Healthcare for Consumers and Patients” as one of 250 items curated for the digital archive of 250 Years of American Medicine.
I'm grateful to be part of the Duke Corporate Education faculty, sharing perspectives on the future of health care with health and life science companies. Once again, I'll be brainstorming the future of health care with a cohort of executives working in a global health care enterprise.