Hundreds of health IT policy stakeholders from across the nation have descended on our nation’s capital for this year’s National Health IT Week (June 14-18, 2010). Stakeholders range from innovators, to practitioners, to physicians, to patients, which can make policymaking complex.   Some of the issues that HIMSS members hope to discuss with policymakers include funding and incentives, delivery transformation, consumer empowerment, standards, and more.  This range of interests and issues is precisely why the HIMSS Policy Summit is so important to organizing members.  The Summit ensures that members are educated on the current Health IT policy challenges and what solutions will best meet the HIMSS mission –to lead the healthcare transformation through the effective use of health information technology.

NextGenWeb attended the launch of the HIMSS Policy Summit and got to talk with some Health IT leaders participating in Capitol Hill meetings.  Click below to watch interviews with Neal Neuberger, Executive Director of the Institute for e-Health Policy and Brad Seamon, of BL Seamon Corp. to hear what they are doing with Health IT and the role that they see for broadband in the growth of health IT.

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