Category: Conference

Tuesday morning at NHIA 2025 featured a breakfast symposium covering the clinical management of adverse reactions in immunoglobulin therapy, and our innovative 30-30-30 sessions that cover a central topic from 3 angles with unique perspectives. For example, IV workflow systems were examined from history of their development and use in hospital systems, to their current adoption in home infusion practice, and how to implement such a system if your organization chooses to operationalize one.

Monday morning kicked off with a high-octane networking breakfast before the General Session. We were fortunate to hear from Dr. Mark McClellan, who was FDA Commissioner and CMS Administrator under the George W. Bush administration, who joined NHIA President and CEO Connie Sullivan for a fireside chat.

NHIA 2025 convened the largest gathering dedicated to the home and alternate site infusion industry in Washington, D.C., featuring the event’s most extensive Expo ever with 150 product and service suppliers supporting the industry, including 39 first-time exhibitors. The conference continued to see an increase in individuals investing to attend the conference and nearly 1,600 industry professionals attended the 5-day event.

NHIA 2025 offers ample opportunities for networking and learning. But we also anchor each day with a different keynote speaker designed to reset your professional outlook and boost the new knowledge, skills, and contacts you acquire.

NHIA announced the recipients of the Exhibitor Innovation Award and Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards. We also saw several examples of how important it is to make every moment count and how this can impact the lives of your colleagues and especially patients. Attendees engaged in all-new Interactive Workshops in the afternoon and closed the day with an event to honor members of the industry at Banger’s on historic Rainey Street.

Monday morning began with a brand-new flow for the NHIA Annual Conference with a high-octane networking breakfast before the General Session. We were fortunate to hear from 9th Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin, M.D., who shared lessons learned during his time in public service leading the largest integrated health care system in the country.

Don’t believe everything that you see, hear, or read. Sterile compounding myths persist because people adopt a “that’s the way we always do it” attitude. Dan Kyes, CPhT, CSPT, BCSCPT, New England Life Care, and Abby Roth, CMQ/OE, Pure Microbiology dispelled a variety of common myths in home infusion compounding at NHIA 2024.

NHIA 2024 convened the largest gathering dedicated to the home and alternate site infusion in Austin for the 5-day event and shattered previous participation records. The event saw more than 1,600 industry professionals register to attend, including over 530 first time attendees.

View photos from NHIA’s 2023 Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C. March 25-29.

Eliminating the inequities in how people access and receive health care can go a long way toward improving health care delivery, outcomes, and population health, according to Christina Ritchey from Optum Infusion Pharmacy. Equity in health care means the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.