Comments on: From HIMSS 3/2/10 (Part 2)

By: Samantha Brown

Samantha Brown — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:21:01 +0000

Inga – Please tell me…Was Judy wearing Birkenstocks?

By: Marissa

Marissa — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:52:08 +0000

In addition to MEDecisions umbrella’s on Tuesday snow day they had some fabulous blue martini’s the first night. That went VERY nicely with the white carpet at their booth. As I had more martini’s I noticed more and more blue stains on the carpet – not it!

On Base happy hour was awesome!

I must have been asked 15 times at the HIStalk party if I was Inga. It must be because I was amongst only about 20 women in the whole place (and maybe because at least one person said I looked like her cartoon pic). It was definitely a higher men to women ratio! Good times!

By: jeremytech

jeremytech — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:25:19 +0000

Thanks for the update, due to training this week (that was canceled last week by the vendor) I wasn’t able to arrange to attend but this running commentary seems to be more informative than attending last year in Chicago. Although it lacks the opportunity to network.

You’re right about Judy getting a few more cool points by attending, its not often she decides to make a non-scheduled event.

By far the most informative part of this was the sit down with David Blumenthal, I’ll be excited if a standardized Master Patient Index was created. Even if its only as standardized as HL7!

By: vsm

vsm — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:23:26 +0000

For those of us who attended David Blumenthal’s session via the remote video link in the overflow room, the video and audio were not in sync. The room moderator indicated that it was an ‘interoperability issue’, and ‘they were working on it’.

By: DownUnder

DownUnder — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:18:52 +0000

Traveled a long long way to attend HIMSS. Found the military sessions the best among all. Always enjoy your party!! Too much $ss smoothing with the vendors…although I liked EPIC’s attendance, please keep it at arm’s distance.