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Physician Community Webinar Series

The Physician Community webinar series targets key hot topics and top areas of interest pertinent physician's with regard to health information technology and medical informatics. Become more informed of the changing HIT environment and discover new ways of how understanding these concepts and medical informatics will benefit physicians.

Upcoming Sessions

Please stay-tuned for a Physician Fall series, coming soon! 

Digital Solutions to Fight Medication Non-adherence: electronic formulary, real-time benefit check and electronic prior authorization 

August 31, 2017 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm CT

Medication non-adherence remains a huge issue in the US, costing over $300 Billion annually. There are new NCPDP standards based electronic solutions within the e-prescribing workflow that can help combat this issue. This webinar will discuss the benefits of electronic formulary information, real-time benefit check and electronic prior authorization to patients, prescribers, and pharmacists. We will also discuss how each of these solutions fits within the e-prescribing workflow.

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Specialty Pharmacy and Patient Experience

September 6, 2017 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm CT

Spending on specialty medicines has nearly doubled since 2010. The increasing volume and varied handling of specialty drug prescriptions has major implications for patients, prescribers and pharmacies. There are opportunities to leverage the current ePrescribing workflow within the EHR to accommodate specialty medications.

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2017 Physician Community Session Recordings

May 2017

Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform: The TIGER Initiative

Mar 2017

The Future of Precision Medicine

Jan 2017

The Healthcare Cybersecurity Pulse – Part 2: Tools and Resources You Can Use!

Gain insight into how you can improve your healthcare cybersecurity program with education, awareness, exercises, and more!

2016 Physician Community Session Recordings

Dec 2016

The Healthcare Cybersecurity Pulse – Part 1: What’s Happening and What’s Next?

Hear what healthcare providers are doing with their cybersecurity programs based on results of the 2016 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey.

Mar 2016

2016 Predictions for Health IT Usability

This session explores how the study of usability, user experience, human factors, and human-computer interactions is well-established and decades old. Despite continuing vigorous research efforts and multiple conferences by federal regulatory bodies, healthcare IT has remained focused on functionalities (bells and whistles) rather than capabilities (facilitating clinical workflows and decreasing clinician cognitive load).
Jan 2016

Population Health Management

This session will provide attendees with an overview of practical examples, challenges, and lessons learned from using location-specific data intelligence, supplied by global geo-mapping technologies, that can contribute to a healthy population.

2015 Physician Community Session Recordings

Dec 2015

Dr. AI: Is Artificial Intelligence the Next Paradigm for Biomedical Informatics?

This session will explore artificial intelligence (AI) – how AI is helping identify opportunities for tailored precision medicine that may otherwise go unobserved.
Nov 2015

Physicians in an IT World: A Year in Review

HIMSS North America Board Member, Patricia Hale, MD, PhD, FACP, FHIMSS, provides her perspective on a physician’s journey in health IT in 2015.
Sep 2015

Embracing Telehealth – A Case Study

This session will explore how Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is leveraging patient centered, safe and cost-effective resources to deliver care remotely to a growing international population.
Aug 2015

Clinical Informatics – the New Norm in Medicine?

As technology increases, it becomes increasingly visible that physicians are entrenched in medical informatics more and more every day.
Jun 2015

Ingredients for a Healthier Population

A case study presented by Cleveland Clinic, will explore how to manage variations in the practice of medicine by utilizing distance patient education, care path development, clinically integrated networks and the practical, operational realities of evidence based medicine.
May 2015

Physician-led ACOs: Opportunities and Challenges

The second in a two part series on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs
Mar 2015

Physician-led ACOs: Supporting Chronic Disease Management

The first in a two part webinar series on Physician-led Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
Jan 2015

Coping with Health IT Politics in your Organization

This webinar will explore aspects of power and powerlessness in organizations, provide a model for understanding covert organizational behaviors, and provide suggestions for identifying and coping with such situations.

2014 Physician Community Session Recordings

Dec 2014

Challenges and Preparation for Meaningful Use Stage 2: Part 2

Part 2 of this in-depth view will comb through the details, highlight essential elements and prepare providers for attesting to Stage 2 criteria.
Nov 2014

Challenges and Preparation for Meaningful Use Stage 2: Part 1

This in-depth view will comb through the details, highlight essential elements and prepare providers for attesting to Stage 2 criteria.
Oct 2014

Non-Traditional Determinants of Health

As personal health, family history and private matters contribute to the overall health of patients, it's optimal to expand the electronic health record to encompass nontraditional health history.
Sep 2014

Fast Tracking Organizational Readiness for a New EHR

Driven by healthcare reform pressures, organizations are moving at an aggressive pace to define their EHR.
Aug 2014

Patient Engagement & Benefits Realization

Using combined efforts of geographical & community resources as well as family vs practice perspective can alleviate barriers of patient engagement and develop the right tool for your patients.
Jul 2014

Improving the Health of High Risk Populations with Mobile Technology

mHealth shows strong potential to increase the health of high-risk patients.
Jun 2014

Results of the Physician EHR Usability Pain Point Survey

The HIMSS Physician Community developed a survey targeting working physicians who utilize EHR systems on a regular basis to give insight on EHR usability.
May 2014

Health Story Project: Addressing Challenges to the Medical Record

60% of clinical information is locked in medical records. This webinar will explore how Health Story Project can help you unlock the wealth of physician-attested information to improve patient care, reimbursement and proof of service.
Apr 2014

Standards & Interoperability-the Key to Data Exchange

In this session, the need to promote the development, implementation and dissemination of semantically interoperable, standards-based health IT systems will be discussed.
Mar 2014

HIMSS14 Outcomes

Hear the groundbreaking items that happened at HIMSS14 from the HIMSS Physician Committee Chair and Board Liaison.
Feb 2014

eMeasures: Everything You Wanted To Know

eMeasures help ensure that measures are constantly defined, implemented and compatible across clinical IT systems to promote higher quality and more appropriate care delivery.
Jan 2014

Delivering Value through Health Information Exchange

This session examines the factors shaping health information exchange and the implications of payment reform and other public policy levers.

2013 Physician Community Session Recordings

Dec 2013

Medical Informatics Primer

An overview of medical informatics including topics such as clinical decision support, meaningful use of health IT and electronic health records (EHR).