Today's dynamic IT healthcare 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. The HIT '12: Healthcare Information Transformation Conference will help you prioritize and optimize your limited resources.

For the HIT '12: Healthcare Information Transformation Conference 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):

Prioritizing HIT issues in 2012 and beyond

IT innovation in the time of compliance

The challenges of ICD-10 implementation

Storage growth; keeping up with demand

Moving from data to analytics/business intelligence

Health information exchanges: architecture, applications, connectivity

Making information available anytime, anywhere

Meaningful use stage 2 and beyond—optimizing IT strategies

Considering the cloud for EHRs—or not

Protecting data and privacy

and more.