The Benefits and Barriers to RFID Technology in Healthcare
The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits and barriers of implementing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in the healthcare sector and to provide recommendations to overcome potential barriers.
Nurse-Assessed Optimality of Workload - A Valid Measure for the Adequacy of Nursing Resources?
Evidence-based information management still faces many challenges in nursing. This study investigates the validity of the nursing intensity and staffing system RAFAELA® used in the daily documentation of nursing work in Finland. This study also confirms that hospital mortality, which i...
The Importance of Social Determinants of Health in Determining the Right Clinical Interventions White Paper
Our guest writer illustrates how clinician knowledge of a patient’s social determinants of health can allow for earlier, more targeted clinical interventions.
Removing Data Bias from AI and Machine Learning Tools in Healthcare White Paper
Our members discuss the importance of unlocking the benefits of AI and machine learning in healthcare in a way that combats data bias, rather than exacerbating already present and widespread inequity.
Robotic Process Automation: Changing the Way We Work White Paper
Learn how robotic process automation can help hospitals control rising costs and improve financial stability while maintaining staff levels and providing quality patient care.
Aggregate Immunization Acknowledgment Message Reports Guidance White Paper
To prepare vaccination provider organizations to handle ACK message data, an IIP work group developed this guidance document to improve visibility and access to information from acknowledgment messages.
Leveraging the European Health Data Space White Paper
HIMSS and PCHA have submitted jointly to the European Commission public consultations, focusing on the potential of a European Health Data Space as well as on the special demands of AI in high-risk healthcare solutions.
Digital Patient Engagement: Actionable Communications to Help Patients Navigate Healthcare White Paper
White paper about how healthcare organizations are using digital patient engagement to create new pathways to better health.
Immunization Query Response Workflow Functionalities Catalog
The IIP Multiple Match Query Workgroup in collaboration with the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Drummond Group developed a catalog of functionalities that both E...
Digital Health Passports: Key Considerations for Interoperability and Data Exchange
The HIMSS Interoperability & HIE Committee authored a white paper on the highly relevant and current topic of digital health passports, looking at vaccine passports amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data Management within the Data Ecosystem
At HIMSS 2021, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Cognosante co-hosted a roundtable discussion where healthcare stakeholders shared their challenges with collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data to improve and accelerate their decision making.
The Status of Informatics/eHealth Integration in Medical and Nursing Curricula
The Global eHealth/Informatics Survey conducted by the HIMSS TIGER Initiative questioned educators teaching in medical schools and undergraduate nursing programs around the world to investigate if eHealth was integrated into their curricula.