Ready for Anything

Before the 19,500 delegates and exhibitors of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society arrived in New Orleans in February to talk about wireless health care computing, computer-based patient records, telemedicine, and other repercussions of the IT revolution, the society's meeting planners had another kind of health care technology on their minds. If this year was to be anything like last year, they'd need another small fleet of scooters and motorized wheelchairs.