HIMSS the global voice, advisor and thought leader of health transformation through health IT, has acquired the conference component of Health 2.0, effective immediately. HIMSS will establish a new Health 2.0 business unit within the enterprise that includes HIMSS North America, HIMSS Analytics, HIMSS Media, HIMSS Europe, HIMSS AsiaPacific and the Personal Connected Health Alliance.
“Bringing Health 2.0 into the HIMSS enterprise is a major expansion of our available resources to achieve better health through technology,” said H. Stephen Lieber, HIMSS President/CEO. “This approach will align the knowledge and expertise from the Health 2.0 global network of entrepreneurs, developers and end users engaged in the most leading-edge technologies with that of clinicians, IT professionals, executives, policy leaders and other health IT stakeholders to empower and enable people to live healthier lives.”
Lieber said that HIMSS has no plans to change the type or scope of the conferences presented in the past by Health 2.0. Instead, this expansion provides an opportunity for HIMSS to expand its own educational offerings with a stronger focus on startup technologies in digital health.
Dr Indu Subaiya, CEO and Co-chairman, Health 2.0, will join HIMSS as Executive VP for the newly established Health 2.0 business unit. Matthew Holt, Co-chairman of Health 2.0, will continue to host Health 2.0's international conferences.
Health 2.0 held its first conference in 2007 and now holds three regular conferences in the US, with others in Europe and Asia. Over the past decade, Health 2.0 has welcomed more than 25,000 conference attendees worldwide, hosted over 4,000 demonstrations, and introduced hundreds of new companies to the health technology industry.
Holt said, “Since the mid-2000s, Health 2.0 has gone from a fringe movement representing bleeding-edge technologists, patients and clinicians to being an ecosystem of thousands of companies working with all stakeholders to improve the healthcare experience for everyone. We’re thrilled to be working with the largest and most influential organisation in health IT—HIMSS—to take the movement mainstream.”
Dr Subaiya said, "The creation of a Health 2.0 business unit within HIMSS represents a natural evolution, as digital health technologies are increasingly adopted and integrated by established healthcare organisations. We believe that the union of our businesses and ecosystems will offer unparalleled access and provide new mechanisms for early-stage innovation to permeate and transform the entire healthcare industry in the US and globally.”
In next nine months, seven Health 2.0 conferences will be held from May – December 2017, and a January 2018 conference, including two in Asia:
Health 2.0 India 2017
November 10
Hyderabad, India
Health 2.0 Japan 2017
December 5 to 7
Tokyo, Japan
Health 2.0 will continue to independently operate its Catalyst@Health 2.0 division, which conducts innovations programmes, such as codeathons, developer challenges and pilot programmes for clients, such as government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and health insurers, leveraging the market research powered by the Health 2.0 Source Database.
“Bringing Health 2.0 into the HIMSS enterprise is a major expansion of our available resources to achieve better health through technology,” said H. Stephen Lieber, HIMSS President/CEO. “This approach will align the knowledge and expertise from the Health 2.0 global network of entrepreneurs, developers and end users engaged in the most leading-edge technologies with that of clinicians, IT professionals, executives, policy leaders and other health IT stakeholders to empower and enable people to live healthier lives.”
Lieber said that HIMSS has no plans to change the type or scope of the conferences presented in the past by Health 2.0. Instead, this expansion provides an opportunity for HIMSS to expand its own educational offerings with a stronger focus on startup technologies in digital health.
Dr Indu Subaiya, CEO and Co-chairman, Health 2.0, will join HIMSS as Executive VP for the newly established Health 2.0 business unit. Matthew Holt, Co-chairman of Health 2.0, will continue to host Health 2.0's international conferences.
Health 2.0 held its first conference in 2007 and now holds three regular conferences in the US, with others in Europe and Asia. Over the past decade, Health 2.0 has welcomed more than 25,000 conference attendees worldwide, hosted over 4,000 demonstrations, and introduced hundreds of new companies to the health technology industry.
Holt said, “Since the mid-2000s, Health 2.0 has gone from a fringe movement representing bleeding-edge technologists, patients and clinicians to being an ecosystem of thousands of companies working with all stakeholders to improve the healthcare experience for everyone. We’re thrilled to be working with the largest and most influential organisation in health IT—HIMSS—to take the movement mainstream.”
Dr Subaiya said, "The creation of a Health 2.0 business unit within HIMSS represents a natural evolution, as digital health technologies are increasingly adopted and integrated by established healthcare organisations. We believe that the union of our businesses and ecosystems will offer unparalleled access and provide new mechanisms for early-stage innovation to permeate and transform the entire healthcare industry in the US and globally.”
In next nine months, seven Health 2.0 conferences will be held from May – December 2017, and a January 2018 conference, including two in Asia:
Health 2.0 India 2017
November 10
Hyderabad, India
Health 2.0 Japan 2017
December 5 to 7
Tokyo, Japan
Health 2.0 will continue to independently operate its Catalyst@Health 2.0 division, which conducts innovations programmes, such as codeathons, developer challenges and pilot programmes for clients, such as government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and health insurers, leveraging the market research powered by the Health 2.0 Source Database.
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