Between good health and great care, there’s a bridge
Cisco has innovative solutions that lay the foundation for a more connected, secure, and sustainable future in healthcare, as validated by our partnership with over 46,000 healthcare organizations in 130 countries. From patient engagement and data-driven workflows, to operational transformation and industry-leading security, we have the tools needed to succeed.
Join Cisco at HIMSS 2023 (Booth 2225) for compelling sessions in our in-booth theater, new technology demos, and one-to-one conversations with Cisco experts in our coffee bar.
Attend the CPaaS Lunch and Learn at HIMSS
Thursday, April 20 | 11 a.m.—12:15 p.m. CT | West Building, Level 4 | W475
Join us while you are at HIMSS for a lunch and learn.
We’ll discuss patient-centric care through intelligent automation, digital channels, and chatbots.
Join us for happy hour in the Cisco Booth (#2225)
Gourmet Pretzel and Beer/Wine Happy Hour
Sponsored by ecosystem partner Ordr
Tuesday, April 18 | 4—5:30 p.m.
Cisco ecosystem partner Order will be presenting in the Cisco in-booth theater from 3—3:45 p.m. Immediately following this session, join us for gourmet pretzels and a beer/wine happy hour.
Fresh-Baked Cookie Bar
Sponsored by Webex Events
Wednesday, April 19 | 1:30—3 p.m.
Grab a fresh-baked cookie and coffee in this happy hour and stay for a presentation from Webex in the Cisco in-booth theater from 3—3:45 p.m.
Powering inclusive care for all
Good health is made possible by great care. And great care is made greater by connection. See how Cisco connects patients, providers, and staff to power an inclusive future for all.
Cisco is your trusted technology partner in healthcare
With the unmatched breadth and performance of our portfolio and industry-leading security that helps keep clinician and patient data, devices, and digital experiences safe, Cisco is the right partner to help meet the challenges of this new, technology-first healthcare landscape.
Cybersecurity for healthcare
Cisco sits at the intersection of unmatched experience and unparalleled portfolio breadth that spans collaboration, security, networking, cloud, and applications. Together, we can empower your healthcare team with inclusive, flexible, supportive, and secure solutions that enable you to seamlessly deliver clinical services in a hybrid model.
Care without compromise – Webex for Healthcare
Webex is here to help healthcare providers improve patient care, empower a connected workforce, and keep information secure – from anywhere.
Theater schedule
Please note, the schedule is subject to change.
Tuesday, April 18
Achieving security resilience
11:30 a.m. CST
Today's healthcare organizations need security resilience for the unpredictable and to reduce risk at scale with a modern security solution. Learn how to protect the integrity of every aspect of your business so it can withstand, not just survive, unpredictable threats or changes and emerge stronger.
Speaker:
- Alok Mittal, Cisco
X-Series: The platform you want your hospital’s EMR deployed upon
12 p.m. CST
Both patients and clinicians alike benefit from the use of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform. But with this increased connectivity and data comes greater security risk. Keeping your patients' EMR data secure is of the utmost importance to your healthcare organization. We believe that Cisco UCS X-series is the best option to power your data center, ensuring your clinicians have timely and secure access to the data they need to best serve patients. Learn more about the power of Cisco UCS X-series and how you can use this tool to optimize on your business objectives.
Speaker:
- Travis Atkins, Cisco
Accelerate zero trust in healthcare with Ordr and Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
1 p.m. CST
Zero trust is a critical component of every organization’s security strategy. But how does it extend to connected devices? In this session, Chris Sullivan from Ordr and Marlon Harvey from Cisco share best practices to accelerate zero trust for connected devices using Ordr and Cisco ISE. They will describe how to automate device discovery and classification, identify vulnerable devices, and baseline device behavior as the foundation to create zero trust policies for connected devices in healthcare.
Speakers:
- Marlon Harvey, Cisco
- Chris Sullivan, Ordr
Improving healthcare workforce burnout and moral injury through digital initiatives
1:30 p.m. CST
There is growing recognition that distressed healthcare providers are experiencing more than stress or burnout alone. They are suffering from moral injury, which is what happens when healthcare professionals repeatedly make choices that go against their professional oath. In this session, learn more about how to reduce the burden on clinicians with digital-first workflows, how to create a lifestyle and workstyle balance through collaboration technologies, and how to scale limited resources through the expansion of virtual care.
Speaker:
- Kathryn Howe, Cisco
Mobilizing care team communication and workflow
2 p.m. CST
Understand how to enhance clinical communication workflow in support of helping with staff challenges and burnout, and how Edge, Engage, and hands-free communication work together with Cisco to ensure the experience with connectivity, voice, and security.
Speaker:
- Zack Walker, Vocera Edge
The power of event tech: How to boost patient engagement within your healthcare organization
2:30 p.m. CST
To be successful in today's hyperconnected world, healthcare organizations must find new ways to engage patients throughout the care journey. You need technology that powers advanced attendee collaboration. Whether you’re hosting an external summit for patients, an internal training event, or education events to help keep patients physically and mentally well, now is the time to level up your collaboration technology. From keeping attendees connected through a mobile event app, to showcasing social networking on digital displays at your venue, we’ll show you how event technology helps you put attendee collaboration first.
Speaker:
- Andrew Pearson, Cisco
Patient room of the future
4 p.m. CST
Learn how Cisco can provide the foundation for the patient room of the future and best-in-class patient experiences with a technology-based approach. Cisco can bring together traditional siloed hospital equipment and systems in an Open API framework.
Speaker:
- Ryan Casey, Cisco
Smart spaces for healthy spaces
4:30 p.m. CST
What does it mean to create a smart space within healthcare that is blessed by IT teams and valued by business teams alike? When you use Cisco Spaces, we are able to turn your healthcare facilities into smarter, safer, and more sustainable spaces that help support clinician workflows and patient engagement.
Speakers:
- Vivek Menon, Cisco
- CJ Flores, Cisco
Reliability in healthcare
5 p.m. CST
Reliability is a critical component of efficient and effective operations of today's healthcare organizations. Discover why reliability is so important in healthcare, what is causing reduced reliability in healthcare, and how INFRAM can help create a roadmap for success.
Speakers:
- Matt LaFon, Cisco
- Marlon Harvey, Cisco
Wednesday, April 19
The future of cloud-based smart spaces in healthcare
10 a.m. CST
Creating a space with the health and safety of patients and staff in mind is critical to designing a smart space in healthcare. Insight into the physical world drives decision-making and innovation. In this session, we will examine key questions related to the future of smart spaces in healthcare and look at four use cases more closely.
Speaker:
- Steve Smithers, Cisco
Enduring continuity: Resilient medical device cybersecurity
11 a.m. CST
Cyber-criminals are increasing their sophistication and speed making resiliency critical for preventing and mitigating threats. The HHS 2023 updated publication of Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices provides detailed suggestions for resiliency around medical devices. Applying traditional IT-based Network Management techniques on medical device identification, baselining behavior, vulnerability validation, environmental context, threat detection, risk profiling, creating access control lists, and policy enforcement for a staggering number of unmanaged devices is frequently a point of failure in many NAC initiatives. Join Cisco & Medigate by Claroty and learn HHS’ Network Management Best Practices for healthcare medical devices.
Speaker:
- Ty Greenhalgh, Medigate
Staff safety is a #1 concern - AiRISTA RTLS solutions can help
11:30 a.m. CST
Today's healthcare organizations need to operate effectively and efficiently. Learn how AiRISTA Flow and Cisco RTLS technology can drive staff safety with tags, alerts, and custom workflows and improve equipment utilization with asset tracking.
Speaker:
- Vince Grove, AiRISTA Flow
How to drive new consumer digital health business opportunities
12 p.m. CST
Enabling new business models in the consumer digital health domain and informing decision-making across the care continuum require rich data analytics and a high-performing technology foundation that is intelligent, secure, and private. Learn how our CX healthcare practice is enabling such transformative use cases through the use of a services and solutions approach to future-forward AI-based infrastructure investments.
Speakers:
- Eric Abbott, Cisco
- Marlon Harvey, Cisco
The benefits of virtual assistants in healthcare
12:30 p.m. CST
Virtual health assistants give patients instant responses to healthcare queries at key points along their pathway. This clever AI has seen a recent surge in popularity, helping patients access trustworthy answers 24/7 without adding extra pressure to the workforce.
In this session, learn how these helpful chatbots engage in a friendly and humanlike way, with the ability to seamlessly transfer to another channel, or a live agent during the conversation if required.
Speaker:
- David Jennings, Cisco
Webex for healthcare: Patient journey is customer experience
1 p.m. CST
Over the past few years, telehealth usage has grown exponentially, and digital healthcare is proving to be an efficient and effective tool for engaging patients. Today, patients expect a journey in their healthcare experience that is seamless and modern. In this talk, Jono Luk, VP of Product Management, Webex by Cisco will cover how the Webex platform helps deliver a successful patient journey as well as what the future of healthcare holds via Webex + Cisco solutions.
Speaker:
- Jono Luk, Cisco
Ensuring the availability and performance of healthcare applications with ThousandEyes
1:30 p.m. CST
When it comes to peoples’ lives and the care they receive, there’s nothing more important than the availability and performance of critical applications used for providing quality healthcare. In this session, we'll explore how Cisco ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence help healthcare organizations improve the stability and performance of the applications used by patients, staff, and clinicians every day. We'll showcase real-world examples of how to monitor app infrastructure and dependencies to deliver the best user experience.
Speakers:
- Aaron Trompeter, Cisco
- Chris Hunt, Cisco
Driving security resilience in an ever-changing world
2 p.m. CST
Cisco Secure powers security resilience, enabling organizations to protect the integrity of their business amidst unpredictable threats or change. With Cisco, companies can ensure the integrity of their financial and data assets, spring back from operational disruptions, withstand shocks to supply chains, and secure a hyper-distributed workforce. Cisco Secure helps businesses see more, anticipate what’s next, take the right action, close security gaps, and get better every day at empowering companies to strengthen their institutional-wide resilience investments.
Speaker:
- Joby James, Cisco
Maximize your EHR investment with simplified patient outreach and engagement
2:30 p.m. CST
Maximize the value of your EHR system to increase access to care, improve the patient experience and deliver bottom-line profits.
In this session, you will learn how Webex Connect and SpinSci have joined forces to improve the patient journey with real-time triggered events from your hospital systems. SpinSci's agnostic micro-service node can simplify interoperability into your hospital EHR, contact center, and other back-end systems such as SalesForce, other CRMs, ServiceNow, and ITMSs.
Speaker:
- Kenny Bloxham, Cisco
Cisco's threat-integrated modern infrastructure for healthcare
4 p.m. CST
Cisco can provide multi-domain control and visibility capabilities across the entire diameter of our healthcare customers' IT environments. Join this session to learn more about how your organization can institute zero trust principles and Extended Detection and Response capabilities via intent-based networking.
Speaker:
- Corey Moomey, Cisco
Sustainability and smart hospital spaces
4:30 p.m. CST
We are at a key pivot point on the path to environmental sustainability and healthcare facilities. Financial challenges created by inflation and the global supply chain have opened new opportunities to improve smart spaces. Understand how to save $25,000 USD on clinician renovation costs, while improving the patient experience and reducing clinician burnout.
Speaker:
- Ross Sweetzir, Cisco
Move healthcare to the cloud
5 p.m. CST
Making the move to the cloud can be a market differentiator for your healthcare organization. In this session learn more about the Enhanced Survivability for Webex Calling Dedicated Instance and how this technology can help move healthcare to the cloud.
Speakers:
- Vajrender (Sunny) Akkera, Cisco
- Trent Thomas, Cisco
Thursday, April 20
Webex for healthcare: Driving virtual rounding
10:30 a.m. CST
Organizations need to make in-patient visits and rounding visits more efficient for healthcare providers, and Cisco offers the capability to meet patients virtually in just one click. This not only reduces provider burden but also enhances patient experience. During this session, you will discover how Cisco's flagship telehealth solution, Webex Instant Connect, takes a platform approach to solve the challenges of virtual rounding and in-patient virtual consultations. With simplified integrations to electronic health records (EHR) and hospital systems, and the ability to control patient-facing cameras, Cisco helps providers conduct these sessions comfortably from their office or home.
Speaker:
- Jenil Shah, Cisco
Why visibility is key to healthcare delivery and transformation
11 a.m. CST
In this session, we will address challenges faced by healthcare organizations today as they grow responsibly, and profitably with manageable risk and consistent governance for compliance. Learn how a visibility-driven lifecycle journey approach can help your organization deliver digital transformation outcomes on a continuous basis.
Speakers:
- Raj Kumar, Cisco
- Marlon Harvey, Cisco
Endpoint management: Securing the entire healthcare IT environment
11:30 a.m. CST
In this session, we will speak about the necessity of a zero trust security framework for all of the mobile devices in your network. Robust endpoint management is essential for every modern IT environment and with Meraki Systems Manager, healthcare organizations can be assured of the security of their extended, mobile networks.
Speaker:
- George Mokdessi, Cisco
The Security Outcome Study
12 p.m. CST
The Security Outcomes Study showcases the data we collected from a double-blind study of more than 4700 respondents from 26 countries. The results were independently analyzed by research firm Cyentia to provide cybersecurity leaders everywhere the data they need to make informed decisions. It includes a diverse set of voices across all industries and sizes of organizations. Join this session to learn more about the outcomes specific to healthcare organizations.
Speaker:
- Alok Mittal, Cisco
Three steps to defend and protect network security
12:30 p.m. CST
As the healthcare industry continues to transform and digitize, organizations must grow their network capacity rapidly while ensuring compliance, data privacy, and network security. Cisco Meraki cloud-managed switches play a vital role in helping IT teams (like yours) to provide visibility across layers, streamline remote network management without complexity, keep software up to date effortlessly to defend against cyberattacks, and stay compliant with HIPAA.
Speaker:
- Minyi Pan, Cisco
Healthcare and hybrid work - Maximizing clinical space to power inclusive care for all
1 p.m. CST
Understand how technologies related to hybrid work could transform your primary care practice to help meet your patients where they are. Explore solutions beyond telehealth, that enable you to ensure your clinical spaces are used to maximize care delivery and reduce operational expenses. See how these solutions improve the patient experience and reduce clinician burnout.
Speaker:
- Ross Sweetzir, Cisco
Cisco Meraki turn-key solutions for healthcare facilities
1:30 p.m. CST
At Cisco Meraki, we create the simplest, most powerful IT solutions – helping everyone from small businesses to global enterprises save time, money, and enabling healthcare providers to deliver an optimal patient experience. Since the beginning of Covid, customers have been asking to do more with the Cisco Meraki Portfolio to solve additional business outcomes.
Join us to learn about the problems our customers face and the value our ecosystem partners bring to solve challenges within the healthcare space. With Meraki API and our Marketplace, we can provide solutions to customers that help support their efforts for safer spaces, secure access, and much more.
Speaker:
- Jacky Lo, Cisco
Distributed network infrastructure: A prescription for healthcare IT resiliency
2 p.m. CST
Investing in a more flexible and distributed network infrastructure—one that can scale up and down as needed—should be at the center of all digital transformation efforts for healthcare organizations. Having such a network will provide HCOs with the agility to proactively respond to the next crisis, whatever it may be, without the risk of sacrificing care, and it will enable them to do so in a secure, centralized manner.
Speaker:
- Jordan Noonan, Cisco
Cloud security in healthcare
2:30 p.m. CST
Discover what Cisco can do to help healthcare organizations gain visibility and control over sprawling hybrid cloud environments.
Speaker:
- Tom Winburn, Cisco
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Healthcare Facilities of the Future
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