Cogent to Attend Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Meeting

The Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition is recognized as one of the world’s largest and most respected healthcare IT exhibitions. This year’s annual meeting, to be held February 24 – 28, in Orlando Florida, is expected to attract over 25,000 delegates from the United States and Europe.

Cogent’s COO and head of sales operations, Mark Thomson, has this to say about the upcoming meeting.

“HIMSS will provide us with an excellent opportunity to showcase EQUICARE CS™ to the healthcare IT community in the US. This conference marks the first time the company will meet with technical stakeholders from health providers within the US healthcare market.”

EQUICARE CS™, the company’s lead product, is a web-based, patient-centric approach which enhances a care team’s ability to collaborate with the patient in an efficient and secure manner, post treatment. Health providers are tasked with finding a ‘survivorship solution’ for patients, which meets the current guidelines, as described within the recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report and one which is complimentary to existing IT infrastructure within a provider’s site.

Thomson adds, “Development of EQUICARE CS™ has been done in tandem with direct and on-going feedback from leading cancer treatment centers in the US. At the center of our development has been a focus on capturing and interpreting patient information in the most efficient manner, based on the IOM guidelines, while keeping a keen eye on effective integration with the health provider’s resident information systems.”

Company representatives will be present for the duration of the conference. Information on HIMSS and the annual meeting can be obtained at http://www.himss.org/.

About HIMSS:

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Brussels, and other locations across the United States and Europe, HIMSS represents more than 20,000 individual members and over 300 corporate members that collectively represent organizations employing millions of people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to ensuring quality patient care.

About Cogent Health Solutions:

Cogent is a developer of disease case management software, solutions, and services for health care providers, patients and patient families. Improved survivorship care is critical to managing outcomes of life threatening diseases like cancer.  The promise of more effective surveillance and ongoing structured evidence-based care, will provide for better patient outcomes, and healthcare system efficiency gains. This is the opportunity that fuels our drive to achieve. Cogent is focused on setting the new benchmark for patient management in cancer treatment facilities around the globe.