Paul Swider is on location at the HIMSS23 Global Health Conference and Exhibition, which runs this week in Chicago. In this special “On Location” minute, Paul shares his impressions from the second day of the conference, many of which dovetail with his recent report on social determinants of health (SDOH) data, as well as cybersecurity in the context of the healthcare industry.
Highlights
00:57 — Paul says that now that the conference is underway, he’s seeing a lot of talk around SDOH “out in the wild.” What does it look like? What are some of the cool things you can do — for example, pay and health equity — and how is that making its way into vendor apps?
01:29 — The second big topic Paul is seeing is data — data governance and data management are particularly top of mind since AI is only as good as the data (“garbage in, garbage out”).
02:01 — The third major theme that Paul is seeing at HIMSS so far is security, a topic that’s definitely being discussed by the big hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, but also by smaller vendors.
