Pulse+IT spent a couple of days at the annual HIC conference this week, basking in the glorious sunshine that BrisVegas likes to shower on its lucky inhabitants even in winter. It was nice to see all of the big EMR vendors there and they were all very nice to us, even those whose reputations we were busy tarnishing with some of our reporting in the last few weeks.

Cerner was in the news through a combination of our stories on the disquiet in Queensland over the planned new anaesthesia module and there was also a nice anecdote that ADHA CEO Tim Kelsey told at HIC about how he unexpectedly ended up in hospital in Sydney recently and was able to observe first-hand the frustration and rage felt by some clinicians when dealing with electronic systems.