HIMSS is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better health through information and technology. HIMSS leads efforts to optimize health engagements and care outcomes using information technology. Learn more.
May 22, 2019
Two nurse informaticists share the journeys that led them to their profession.
May 21, 2019
Precision medicine, shares our guest blogger, is seeking to make health maintenance, disease prevention, diagnoses and treatment solutions more precisely selectable for each individual.
May 20, 2019
Our guest blogger shares two fundamental ways we can use patient care technology – and specifically the benefits of artificial intelligence as a tool – to return some humanity to healthcare.
May 23, 2019
With new officials to engage, HIMSS chapter advocates are encouraged to take advocacy action to elevate health information and technology priorities, such as telehealth and interoperability.
May 22, 2019
How can we truly put the patient at the center of all we do in healthcare? It’s a question that HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf addressed at length during his opening plenary of the Minnesota Chapter Spring Conference.
May 09, 2019
The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies spending bill for FY2020 has been advanced and includes $100 million in new funding for implementing leading edge, interoperable, secure IT systems and recruiting and retaining skilled data scientists.
March 29, 2019
Healthcare is stepping into the 21st century and this company is helping patients everywhere make sense of the transformation.
March 08, 2019
"About 82 percent of hospital information security leaders surveyed reported having a 'significant security incident' in the last 12 months, according to the 2019 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey."
February 06, 2019
Record-keeping challenges mean patients are too often misidentified and given the wrong care. Technology may help with that.
May 23, 2019
Combining tech and interpreters will enable companies to eradicate disparities and fuel new innovation.
May 22, 2019
Even five years after go-live, many health systems aren't realizing the full value of their electronic health records, says a new Chartis Group report. Gaining clinical and financial ROI depends on a "sustained, organized approach."
May 22, 2019
Inland Empire Health Plan and Preveon clinical pharmacists use review system to achieve a 50 percent drop in drug-drug interactions, a 50 percent drop in duplications, and two meds discontinued per patient, on average.
