ICYMI: The Best Tweets from HIMSS16

Written By Jaime Grimes

With millions of impressions, 143,164 Tweets by the beginning of day three and even encouraging a national Twitter trend, attendees at 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition were all a-twitter on Twitter about what the conference had to offer, from keynote speakers Michael Dell and Peyton Manning to the HealthTech Demo Zone to those ever-increasing lines for caffeine.

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HIMSS16 ran from Feb. 29 through March 4, and below, we compiled the most intriguing, thought-provoking and funny Tweets from the event's 41,885 health IT enthusiasts and social media ambassadors.

What 41,885 health IT-minded attendees looks like…

… and what they do for a living…

… and what they don’t look like.

What was on everyone’s mind coming into HIMSS16…

… and what Judy Faulkner had to say about health IT software.

HIMSS16 told us what patients are looking for in health IT…

… and what doctors are looking for...

… and what the health IT industry is going to do about it.

Some may call HIMSS16 The Year of the Woman…

… though there’s still a long way to go for women in health IT.

What will next year hold for health IT? Can we stay pumped for the rest of 2016?

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