Focused on Value of Health IT, ABC Company Joins HIMSS Innovation Center as ___ Collaborator

Opening in mid-October 2013, the HIMSS Innovation Center demonstrates the value of IT and information exchange to patient care, clinician satisfaction, and the bottom line. Now, ABC Company announces its participation at the HIMSS Innovation Center as a (Founding, Strategic, Industry, or Supporting) Collaborator.

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The HIMSS Innovation Center, a 30,000-square-foot-global center for excellence, is part of the Global Center for Health Innovation in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, includes the Health IT Simulation Center and the Healthcare Technology Showcase.

The Health IT Simulation Center is a fully operational, multi-care setting, environment populated with simulated patient demographic, clinical and financial data. Members of the health and healthcare communities interact in real-time to both test and demonstrate scenarios that elicit a specific product’s interoperability and capabilities to improve quality and patient outcomes, cost-effective care coordination, secure data exchange, and better business performance.

Within the Healthcare Technology Showcase, these same stakeholders view rolling exhibitions on various topics including information exchange, mobile health and consumer-driven health. The year-round exhibition space will further validate functionality for new and developing products using standards and customized testing in both a physical and virtual demonstration environment.

This exhibition area, much like the Interoperability Showcases held at HIMSS conferences, will enable solutions providers to work collaboratively, instead of competitively. These participants will demonstrate and solve real-world healthcare delivery problems, showing the value of participating technologies in specific-use cases of the highlighted theme.

ABC Company joins current collaborators for the Innovation Center: Alego Health, Federal Health Architecture and healthit.gov as Founding Collaborators; Fujitsu as an Industry Collaborator; and Cardinal Health, Juniper Networks, and Total Voice Technologies as Supporting Collaborators.

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The HIMSS Innovation Center:

  • Will provide testing and educational services available virtually worldwide.
  • Will become a global center for excellence for health and health IT testing, demonstration, exhibitions, and consumer products, including the latest breakthroughs in mobile health devices and distance medicine technology.
  • Will leverage its educational offerings on a variety of interoperability platforms, sometimes partnering with other leaders in the facility.
  • Will create educational programming for health and healthcare sector learners and conferences in the adjacent Cleveland Convention Center.

The Global Center for Health Innovation displays the future of health and healthcare with most participating tenants having global reach and reputation to draw international visitors to their spaces within the Global Center. HIMSS exemplifies the global reach of the facility, as the sector’s leader in health IT, with offices in Chicago, Brussels, Singapore, Berlin, and Leipzig. HIMSS joins Cleveland Clinic, GE Healthcare, Johnson Controls, University Hospitals and Philips Healthcare as charter tenants in the Global Center.

Visit the HIMSS Innovation Center on the 4th floor of the Global Center for Health Innovation. Go to for more information.

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