My Sidewalk Coverage Of The iEHR Conference

This Wednesday and Thursday the Defense Strategies Institute plans to hold a conference on the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments’ planned integrated electronic health record (iEHR) that, as I reported, is open to vendors who want to peddle their wares to the government but not to the media.

So many vendors have signed up for this conference at rates that range from $750 to $825 each that those who registered late will end up in an overflow room at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, Va.

Probably worth the price, as the value of the iEHR is pegged at between $4 billion and $15 billion and the conference features a phalanx of speakers, topped by Barclay Butler, director of the Defense-VA iEHR Interagency Program Office. [...]