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Once an insider’s domain, health IT conference embraces consumer tech giants

Health care’s digital transformation will take center stage at #HIMSS19, a gathering whose exponential growth is a metaphor for the change sweeping through one of America’s biggest economic sectors.

Health care’s digital transformation will take center stage in Orlando, Fla., next week at the industry’s most influential technology conference, a gathering whose exponential growth is a metaphor for the change sweeping through one of America’s biggest economic sectors.

Once a meeting of a few thousand health technology insiders, the annual conference of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) now attracts more than 40,000 attendees and some of the world’s biggest companies.

It is a place where the ambitions of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants converge — and sometimes clash — before into hospital operations and clinical care.

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