05/28/2021

Healthcare Conference to Require COVID-19 Vaccination to Attend

HIMSS will be requiring attendees to prove they're vaccinated

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is one of the first groups to announce it will be requiring attendees, exhibitors and HIMSS staff to be fully vaccinated against COIVID-19 to get access to its August 2021 annual meeting in Las Vegas.

“We want to do the right thing by keeping everyone safe, and with the guidance of our health and safety panel, we came to this decision that the vaccine would be the best way to protect all,” said Karen Groppe, senior director of strategic communication for HIMSS.

HIMSS’s annual conference, which is typically one of the larger healthcare conferences in the U.S., had to be canceled last year due to the pandemic. This year, by having everyone vaccinated, the organization is hoping to have meaningful interaction in a face-to-face space.

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