National Healthcare Innovation Summit Focuses on Triple Aim and Transformative Solutions

04/09/2014 - Innovation in healthcare looks to quality patient care with new solutions to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Now, applied innovations to advance a transformed health system come to the forefront during the National Healthcare Innovation Summit, organized by HIMSS, hosted by AVIA, and in alliance with NEHI, on May 13-15 in Boston, Mass.

Press Release: HIMSS Assesses New FDASIA Report Supporting a More Balanced Health IT Framework

04/04/2014 - Responding to the FDASIA Health IT Report – Proposed Strategy and Recommendations for a Risk-Based Framework released this week by the Food and Drug Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HIMSS recognized the agencies’ efforts in recommending a new health IT framework to ensure patient safety while encouraging innovation and technology improvements.

HIMSS Acquires UK Events Company to Form HIMSS UK

03/13/2014 - HIMSS, a global not for profit organization, has announced the launch of HIMSS UK after acquiring ownership of Citadel Events Ltd, a UK based event management company specializing in health IT.

HIMSS Media postpones ICD-10 Forum

Apr 23, 2014

HIT leads list of top 10 safety concerns

Apr 23, 2014

Health information technology systems have made their way to the No. 1 patient safety concern for healthcare organizations, according to the findings of a new ECRI industry report.

The report, which includes data on more than 300,000 safety event reports, underscores healthcare's top 10 patient safety concerns for 2014 and puts data integrity failures with HIT systems at the very top.

Data sharing: positive patient outomes?

Apr 23, 2014

Meanwhile, the European Commission has expedited plans to bring in new data protection laws since the Snowden revelations brought the importance of privacy issues to the general public. However, it has been suggested by Peter Knight of the UK Department of Health that new EU rules on data protection would make research ‘impractical’.

BEST Hospital IT Departments nominations open April 23

Apr 23, 2014
A Healthcare IT News special report in October 2014 will profile the top IT departments, exploring those qualities that make them exceptional.

Collaboration is Key to Enterprise-wide Imaging Success

Apr 22, 2014
When it comes to imaging, healthcare organizations are learning that sharing is a good thing, but collaboration is even better.

Social/Behavioral Health Data Vital to EHRs

Apr 17, 2014
Incorporating social and behavioral health data in EHRs can help improve care for patients and populations.

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