Great to meet our readers at Fierce's HIMSS events!

Now that you're all back in the office following a jam-packed HIMSS10 week of networking, learning and checking out the latest health IT products, I wanted thank those of you who attended our first-ever HIMSS executive breakfast panel discussion March 2, jointly sponsored by FierceMobileHealthcare, FierceWireless and Meru Networks.

Our panel of hospital CIOs and wireless experts shared their 'been there, done that' lessons learned, and discussed the many misconceptions regarding mobile technology deployment. Although this technology has yet to reach its full potential in the healthcare setting--"we'll see tremendous explosion" predicts said Geoffrey Brown, Senior VP and CIO at Inova Health System in Falls Church, Va.--our panelists agreed that many hospitals have learned the hard way how not to deploy this technology. "If not designed right, wireless could be the weakest link," warned Ram Appalaraju, senior marketing VP at Meru Networks. (In fact, Meru is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, March 24 at 2 p.m. EST on delivering high-quality VoIP.)

Later that evening, we met hundreds of additional Fierce readers at our networking bash, held at the World of Coca-Cola. It was fantastic to meet so many FierceHealthIT readers--from hospital and healthcare system technology leaders to executives from some of the largest IT vendors in the industry. Nearly 500 of you braved the rain (and snow!) to party the night away.

This was by far our largest FierceHealthIT event to date, and reflects our tremendous growth overall. Just last year, we launched FierceMobileHealthcare and FierceEMR. In less than a year, they've become weekly must-reads for more than 30,000 subscribers. We also recently published our first eBook (it focuses on the dreaded Medicare recovery audits). Look for an EMR eBook -- and more Fierce newsletters -- publishing early this spring.

Until then, stay Fierce! And as always, feel free to contact me anytime. It's always great to hear from you.

Best,

Wendy Johnson, publisher

P.S.: If you didn't make it out to the Atlanta HIMSS show this year--or even if you did--check out our full coverage of the show at our special FierceHealthIT HIMSS10 website. Our editors fanned out across the show to bring you highlights and analysis from some of the hottest sessions!