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.
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.
The Information Blocking Rule and Its Application in Skilled Nursing Facilities White Paper
This paper focuses on compliance of the Information Blocking Rule, particularly for skilled nursing facilities, and ensuring authorized access to electronic health information.
Immunization Query Response Aggregate Measures for Multiple Matches Report
In February 2020, the Immunization Integration Program (IIP) Executive Committee identified four areas of focus from over 30 prioritized issues for improving immunization interoperability, information sharing and management.
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.
Can High-Reliability Organization Principles Help Transform Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.?
The pandemic highlighted an opportunity for the U.S. healthcare system to become more efficient and effective in delivering care during times of public health crises and beyond.
Technical Innovations Change Behavioral Health and Suicide Prevention Paradigm
In the U.S. in the last 20 years, there’s been a trend toward normalizing mental healthcare and removing its stigma and a corresponding rise in the need for developing effective behavioral health solutions.
Building a Mature Medical Device Cybersecurity Program
The cost of cyberattacks, combined with operational disruption to vital medical equipment and patient care, put healthcare facilities’ reputation and, most importantly, patient safety and outcomes at risk.
HTI-1 Final Rule: Five Key Resources for Understanding New Standards, Specifications, Certifications
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule on December 13, 2023.
Consumer Perspective on Personal Health Records: A Review of the Literature
Explores publications on personal health records features of usability, communication, treatment compliance, literacy, interoperability and privacy/security [Smitha Pushpangadan and Charlotte Seckman]