The past year has been a notable one for health IT, which leads us to 
believe 2015 can only bring a slew of new achievements. In the spirit of
 embracing the New Year, HIMSS15 Views From the Top speakers divulged 
their insights on what we can expect in the coming year and beyond. 
These individuals are leaders in their healthcare roles with real-world 
experience from which they glean their predictions. Looking ahead, they 
see the following trends taking center stage in health technology 
policy, process and innovation: 
 
 1. Patient-to-patient social media collaboration – Mary Beth Mitchell 
 2. App-driven data liberation – Patrick Conway 
 3. Traction on ‘care without boundaries’ – Laura J. Wood 
 4. Customized personal health analytics – Judy Murphy 
 5. Continuation of tech-enabled patient engagement – Roy Rosin 
 6. Streamlined patient-to-physician mobile app data – Alan M. Muney 
 
 Explore these trends in greater detail: http://ow.ly/H5hqF 
 
 Knowing that the healthcare ecosystem is a complex one, what trends 
would you prioritize? Are these leaders on-point with your professional 
experiences? What trends are you noticing?
Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
 - transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
 - institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
 - vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.