Comprehensive coverage of WTN Media’s Digital Health Conference

As you may know from at least one of my earlier posts, I was in Madison, Wis., last month for a great little health IT event called the Digital Health Conference, a production of the Wisconsin Technology Network and the affiliated WTN Media. In fact, WTN Media hired me to cover the conference for them, so I did, pretty comprehensively. In fact, I wrote eight stories over the last couple of weeks, seven of which have been published: “Process change just as important as analytics, says IBM physician” “Health IT startups welcome at health systems, if they can show value” “Health IT official coordinator says bad habits hard to break” “Better usability, framing of EHRs as clinical tool could boost acceptance” “To work with Epic, know their customers and follow standards” “Privacy hawk: Put patients at center of health information exchange” “Health startups, don’t put lipstick on the pig” I still have an overview story that should go up this week. Why do I say it’s a great little conference? The list of speakers was impressive for a meeting of its size, with about 200 attendees for the two-day main conference and 150 for a pre-conference day about startups and entrepreneurship. Since it is practically in the backyard of Epic Systems, CEO Judy Faulkner is a fixture at this annual event, and this time she also sent the company’s vendor liaison. Informatics and process improvement g...
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