In-person programming includes highly vetted sessions from industry leaders and specialty, niche programs to meet distinct needs. HIMSS is at the forefront covering cutting edge topics impacting the health IT ecosystem.
Featured Speaker Sessions: Keynotes & Views from the Top
Be inspired and explore possibilities with leading innovators and doers. Industry luminaries, top-ranking government officials and world-renowned influencers guide our vision for realizing full health potential of every human, everywhere.Included with all registrations.
Concurrent Education Sessions
Learn from the industry’s finest speakers—sharing their best practices, applicable tools, and stories from “in the trenches” across our topic areas. All sessions go through a highly vetted peer-review process to ensure only the highest quality presentations make the stage. Many sessions are CE-approved and offer an excellent opportunity to earn continuing education credit for renewal of various accreditations and certifications. Included with all registrations.
Lectures
Attend outcomes-focused conference education sessions on a specific topic—showcasing best practices, lessons learned “in the trenches,” and actionable insights.
Panel Discussions
Hear vetted speakers share their expertise and engage in friendly debate in a lively panel format. Designed to foster collaboration and new perspectives, these thought-provoking conversations from diverse professionals will both inspire and provide meaningful audience takeaways.
Essential Conversations
Connect with other changemakers during interactive, facilitated dialogues. Participate in conversations with the entire room and listen to multiple perspectives on the same issue. These sessions are a great opportunity to meet others who share your interests—and to then continue the conversation afterward in networking areas.
Learning Bursts
Gain inspiration from compelling 30-minute sessions designed to provide quick innovation takeaways around critical health and information technology topics. Expect bite-sized, actionable information and valuable datapoints you can immediately apply.
Special Forums
Jumpstart your week with a topic-focused or role-specific program on Monday—before general programming and the exhibition opens. Each full-day event immerses you in actionable ideas and connections with others who share your interests.
You can select one Forum if you purchase the Conference Plus Pass option or buy an a la carte Forum ticket for $350.
Attend a special forum if you want to:
- Build your network with like-minded attendees.
- Focus your time within a dedicated topic area.
- Earn CE credit from approved sessions
- Gain the most from your time in Chicago.
AMDIS/HIMSS Physicians’ Executive Forum
Join the 2023 AMDIS/HIMSS Physician Forum to learn about the building blocks for a comprehensive and effective Digital Health strategy.
Nursing Informatics Forum
The program design, intended for all levels of nursing informatics practice, will allow attendees to learn from experts, review research, build relationships, exchange practical career advice, and discover innovative solutions to healthcare's most significant challenges.
Interoperability and HIE Forum
The Interoperability and HIE Forum will dive deep into real-life action plans for meeting the quadruple aim through interoperability.
Behavioral Health
Post-COVID issues, economic turmoil, and aggression have triggered an increase in patients with behavioral health issues. With so much still to be done to treat the whole patient, this session will focus on the processes and technologies that lead to enhanced care delivery.
Patient Experience Forum
The Patient Experience Forum will focus on developing an “outside in” approach to patient engagement and consumer experience that leverages disruptive innovations ranging from empathic technologies and digital front doors, to the softer skills needed to complement advanced computer and data sciences.
Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare Forum
The Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare Forum will offer attendees real world use cases and provide opportunities to network with your fellow ML/AI peers.
Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum agenda will highlight collaboration, communication and preparedness to evolve the fight against cyberattacks.
Professional Development Seminar
Adapt to changes in your organization and build skills that will enhance your future career success. This Professional Development Seminar is designed for everyone from emerging leaders to senior-level professionals.
Global Health Policy Connection Sessions
Participate in sessions focused on cross-government collaboration of health information and technology programs. Gain insights into key initiatives, plans, priorities and opportunities—and how policy decisions will impact your organization. Included with all registrations.
Government Sessions
Hear from experts at all levels of government sharing current health information and technology-related public policy initiatives like Medicare, information blocking, cybersecurity, and Congressional and state policy actions. Included with all registrations.
HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence Sessions
The HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence showcases the thoughtful, evidence driven application of information and technology by health systems, outpatient providers, community clinics, post-acute care organizations, and public health entities from around the globe.
The HIMSS Davies Awards education sessions present replicable roadmaps, including strategies, technology interventions, and information-enabled workflows, demonstrated to produce better care outcomes and improve the health and wellness of the communities they serve. Included with all registrations.
Industry Solutions Sessions
Learn from peers that have implemented solutions along with the business partners that are helping them achieve success. Sponsored by market suppliers, these presentations focus on problem sets and real-life, implementable outcomes. Included with all registrations.
Exhibition Theater Sessions
Attend sessions in your areas of interest throughout the exhibit floor Tuesday - Thursday. These specialty pavilion theatres are home to exhibitors—from established industry icons to nimble startup companies—with the products and solutions needed to solve important challenges. Included with all registrations
Session Series
Focus your attention and deeply explore topics of interest by attending curated sessions scheduled back-to-back in the Concurrent Education agenda. Included with all registrations
Alternative Care Delivery Models Series
In this session series, learn perspectives from three different organizations on how their approach to implementation care delivery at home, the challenges, and opportunities, and the emergence of new business models.
AI/ML Series
Attendees to this session series will learn how organizations have leveraged technology to prioritize care based on risk and social vulnerabilities, analyzed metrics to better understand the population, and used ethical machine-learning practices to improve the workload of caregivers.
Behavioral Health Series
Organizations comprised in this session series have focused beyond the pandemic by establishing programs to address ongoing behavioral health wellness, expanding access based on a data-driven workflow analysis, and using a unique care delivery model to assess and treat mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Canadian Series
With a focus on the experiences of Canadian healthcare providers, an immersive experience awaits attendees to this session series on the use of key concepts and techniques for explainable machine learning, a glimpse of the first smart hospital to embed technology within clinical workflows, and the use of an interdisciplinary lens to reduce EHR-related burden at a large teaching hospital.
Cybersecurity Series
Organizations in this session series have taken approaches to implement a standard for the Clinical Internet of Things which projects against the trust, identity, privacy, protection, safety, and security principles; they have addressed cyber and data governance with a set of healthcare cyber essentials; and they have elevated cybersecurity as a strategic imperative and received more significant buy-in and investment with their organization.
Data Science Series
Organizations in this session series will demonstrate how using various tools can help providers yield highly accurate predictions, how one developed a dashboard that supports maternal child health clinical quality assurance and performance improvement measures and the experiences of another organization in leveraging data science to manage iodinated contrast shortages based on mitigation and usage strategies.
Digital Health Transformation Series
Organizations in this session series will focus on the promise of innovation in solving the equity crisis, identifying how Certified and Federally Qualified Health Centers are now equipped to provide whole-person care, and examining the “TechQuity” by leveraging technology in pursuit of health equity.
Health Equity Series
Organizations in this session series will focus on the promise of innovation in solving the equity crisis, identifying how Certified and Federally Qualified Health Centers are now equipped to provide whole-person care, and examining the “TechQuity” by leveraging technology in pursuit of health equity.
Interoperability Series
This session series will focus on various aspects of semantic interoperability that will increase our ability to improve care, address political and social aspects of providing care, address various NGO and governmental challenges, and identify implementation standards that address the ways semantic interoperability will improve the usability of data.
Reimbursement and Price Transparency Series
In this session series, learn how the practice of behavioral economics can be applied to incentivizing physician performance as related to reimbursement, how the automation of the prior authorization workflow has involved both process improvement and intelligent automation principles, and learn about the future of digital health and coding practices from Medicare’s perspective.
Venture Capital Series
During this session series, attendees will leverage the experiences of a community-based health system’s entrance into creating a precision medicine program, identify new sustainability models for health information exchanges, and appreciate how an NGO is bringing hope and healing to the most vulnerable through aviation.
Poster Presentations
View on-demand posters, presented in various locations across conference. Some posters will be only available within Add-on Events, including nursing and physician-focused special forums.
Emerging Healthcare Leaders Poster Sessions
This is an opportunity for emerging healthcare leaders to share information in a poster format during the HIMSS23 Workforce ConneXtions event.
