Major companies like Microsoft, Cisco, and Amazon pulled out of the annual Orlando conference in recent days.
| The annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), has been canceled due to concerns surrounding the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). | | "It is clearly necessary to cancel the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition," HIMSS said in a statement. | | Several companies, including Cisco, Amazon, and Microsoft, decided to withdraw from the conference, which typically draws around 45,000 attendees, due to concerns about the coronavirus. | | President Donald Trump was scheduled to address the conference next Monday. |
HIMSS 20, the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), has been canceled due to concerns surrounding the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Read HIMSS' statement and the full story here: Related Coverage: HIMSS Weighs in on HHS Interoperability Proposals: 8 Takeaways In Response to Coronavirus, Majority of North American Companies Launch Employee Protection Plans 4 Coronavirus Prescriptions for U.S. Healthcare Community CMS Tells Providers to Activate Infection Control Practices | |
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