“As of Tuesday morning, Salesforce, Intel, Cisco and Amazon and other tech companies have all pulled out of HIMSS, a giant health IT conference in Orlando that draws tens of thousands of attendees.”
“Some of the companies have not announced their plans publicly, despite having made a decision not to attend. But HIMSS said it hasn’t instructed any exhibitors to withhold information from their partners and customers…”
“HIMSS, which is scheduled to begin on March 9, made the decision not to cancel the conference altogether, even as other big conferences are shuttering. The Game Developers Conference, CERAWeek and the in-person portion of Facebook’s F8 are among the conferences that have been cancelled in the interests of public health and safety.”
“HIMSS said it would continue to update attendees on the “attendance and status,” and that it is conferring with a medical advisory board…”
“As a precaution, we have implemented travel restrictions to areas significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and restricted attendance at events that don’t apply similar travel restrictions to attendees…” Read the full article here.
Source: Amazon, Intel, Cisco and Salesforce back out of health-tech conference HIMSS due to coronavirus – By Christina Farr, March 3, 2020. CNBC.
