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.

Geisinger shows how data drives change

Apr 17, 2014

mHealth still untapped resource for docs

Apr 17, 2014

For the most part, providers are still weary over the mHealth movement. And this weariness just might be preventing them from big care improvement opportunities, say the findings of a new study.

The study, commissioned by mobile professional services firm Mobiquity, finds some 70 percent of consumers use mobile apps every day to track physical activity and calorie intake, but only 40 percent share that information with their doctor.

Why does healthcare resist encryption?

Apr 17, 2014

The most basic security truth in 2014 is that encryption done properly -- a high enough level of encryption, proper safeguarding of the encryption key -- is the best thing an IT department can do.

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.

Big Winds Blow Provider into Future of Medical Imaging

Apr 14, 2014
Installing Agfa HealthCare's integrated ICIS VNA allowed Ochsner Health System to consolidate medical images into one repository.

Successful Medication Reconciliation Hinges on Access to Patient's Medication History

Apr 9, 2014
Health Care Systems, Inc. is leveraging an electronic medication history service to help provider organizations improve patient safety.

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