HIMSS - Activities and Sessions Overview

HIMSS - Activities and Sessions Overview

What are Activities and Sessions?

When setting up your Activities and Sessions, think about the Activities being more of a broad service category and the sessions being more specific.

Below are a few examples of Activities and Sessions.


                Activity            Sessions                             Activity          Sessions                                    Activity            Sessions


Here is how Activities and Sessions appear in HIMSS:



For more information see: 
  1. Activities
  2. Sessions

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