Today's dynamic IT health professionals face unprecedented opportunities for providing new and improved services in support of increasing efficiencies, improving patient care, and decreasing cost. However, with these opportunities come challenges: ensuring security and privacy, complying with the numerous regulations and "meaningful use" guidelines. Looming deadlines and various projects are competing for IT's time. HIT '12 will help you prioritize and optimize your limited resources.

We've isolated the top 12 issues that are keeping healthcare IT executives up at night and what can be done to tackle these critical issues. Our top 12 hits will include (not including the bonus tracks):

1. Prioritizing HIT issues in 2012 and beyond
2. IT innovation in the time of compliance
3. The challenges of ICD-10 implementation
4. Storage growth; keeping up with demand
5. Moving from data to analytics/business intelligence
6. Health information exchanges: architecture, applications, connectivity
7. Creating a mobile plan and infrastructure
8. Making information available anytime, anywhere
9. Meaningful use stage 2 and beyond—optimizing IT strategies
10. Considering the cloud for EHRs—or not
11. Integrating inpatient and outpatient information systems
12. Protecting data and privacy 

and more.