As HIMSS approaches, plans for health tech’s biggest gathering are clashing with a need for caution
It was supposed to be a coming out party for the digital health industry after a huge year of business. But one of the sector’s biggest annual gatherings is shaping up to be a microcosm of another distressing moment in the pandemic, when an overwhelming desire for normalcy is again clashing with an imperative for caution.
The conference of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is scheduled to begin Monday in Las Vegas. But the weeklong event, to be held in person, is unfolding against the backdrop of a rising wave of Covid-19 cases and fear over the spread of the especially contagious Delta variant of the virus.
