HIMSS cancels conference due to coronavirus
Pam Arlotto was interviewed about the HIMSS20 conference cancellation due to the coronavirus in the March 5th issue of Modern Healthcare.
Article by Jessica Kim Cohen.
The cancellation could have a significant financial impact not just on HIMSS, but also on participating companies.
“This is going to have a huge economic impact, for both big companies and small companies,” said Pam Arlotto, president and CEO of healthcare consultancy Maestro Strategies. “For a lot of people, this is where they touch base with their customers and do a lot of their business development.”
This will be the first year Arlotto hasn’t attended the conference since 1982.
“I wish we had all known this about a week ago, ” she said of the cancellation. “It probably is the right thing to do, but I think a lot of us were going to go and risk it.”