The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society will permanently lease at least 25,000 square feet in a proposed Nashville Medical Trade Center to feature an “interoperability showcase,” the Nashville Business Journal reports.
Project officials hope HIMSS will serve as an “anchor tenant” for the trade center and will attract other tenants to the space (Gee/Wortham, Nashville Business Journal, 4/28).
The showcase will serve as an interactive demonstration of health IT products.
HIMSS President and CEO Stephen Lieber described the venture as a “permanent, year-round destination for [health IT] activity and innovation.” He added, “By joining the trade center we are able to reach more participants, demonstrate ‘meaningful use’ more completely and offer more flexibility than ever before” (Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 4/28).
The center, slated to open in 2013, would devote its top two floors to providing showroom space for health IT firms (Ward, Tennessean, 4/29).
