HCDExchange Competitors

HIMSS (the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is a mission-driven independent non-profit society, a global thought leader, and an advisor dedicated to creating an informed and empowered community of providers, innovators, and individuals. HIMSS stands apart by bridging strategic and visionary ideas with practical execution, empowering health systems and governments globally to achieve measurable impact for the future of health and care. HIMSS has served the global health community for more than 60 years, with focused operations across North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven (HL7) is an ANSI-accredited non-profit that empowers global health data interoperability by developing standards and enabling their adoption and implementation – for a world where everyone can securely access and use the right health data when and where they need it. What does HL7 actually do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcaWU7dEAcs HL7 International LinkedIn group page: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2478980

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is the lead agency charged with formulating the federal government’s health IT strategy and coordinating federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments. ONC is organizationally located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The position of National Coordinator was created in 2004, through an Executive Order, and legislatively mandated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009.