NEW YORK and ATLANTA /PRNewswire/ - Zanett, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZANE) announced Friday that it has just successfully completed the Altanta-based 2010 HIMSS Healthcare Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS - Healthcare Information Management Systems Society). HIMSS is an annual conference, considered by many to be the world's largest and most respected Healthcare IT exhibition, showcasing the most innovative Healthcare IT vendors.

More information on HIMSS can be obtained at http://www.himssconference.org.

OVER 27,500 HEALTHCARE EXPERTS

More than 27,500 healthcare industry experts including CFO's, CIO's, physicians, nurses, payers, pharmacists, and CTO's attended HIMSS 2010 to learn about the latest solutions for improving healthcare through IT. More than 300 education sessions on cutting-edge topics such as meaningful use standards, certification and criteria, ARRA, Government contributions to advancing Healthcare IT, nationwide Electronic Health Records (EHRs), and Healthcare IT privacy and security practices.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the selection of David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. as the Obama Administration's choice for National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. As the National Coordinator, Dr. Blumenthal will lead the implementation of a nationwide interoperable, privacy-protected health information technology infrastructure as called for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

In his appearance at HIMSS, David Blumenthal, MD, reiterated his support for healthcare IT, calling information the "lifeblood of medicine." Healthcare IT is "destined to be its circulatory system," he said. As long as "the focus is kept on the value to patients and the promise to both individual and population health, we will not go astray in our efforts to implement Healthcare IT."

"While 2009 was spent mostly developing policy," Dr Blumenthal amplified, "now begins the process of implementation." By the end of spring 2010 when three regulations will be finalized, "the new era of high-tech can be launched and the next iteration of meaningful use standards and criteria will be addressed," he further explained.

Fiscal stimulus - advancing healthcare it

Furthermore, Dr Blumenthal reviewed the wide range of programs that will be funded by the $2 billion of discretionary funding made possible by the recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Health IT Policy Committee created a new working group that is currently focusing on privacy and security, as well as addressing cyber security issues on the broader federal level.

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