The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced that the 2009 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition will be held on April 4-8, 2009 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. The annual event has added an extra day, April 4, for registration, pre-conference events and a sneak peek at the upcoming events and activities.
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Health care public relations professionals have a challenging job that changes with each new piece of technology or marketing trend. Health care information is an essential part of everyone’s life, and determining how to disseminate that information to the public at large can seem like an insurmountable feat. Fortunately, the Public Relations Society of America has the solution in the form of the 2008 PRSA Health Academy Conference to be held April 2-4, 2008. The conference is being held at the Chicago-Marriott on the Miracle Mile in Chicago. The event is being billed as “Health Care Communications Strategy: Boomers, Xers, Nexters”, with the tagline of “Communicating in a Cross-Generational/Cross-Cultural Landscape”. (more…)