Humanity and the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence
Our guest writer 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.
Precision Medicine: The Promise and the Challenges
Precision medicine, shares our guest blogger, is seeking to make health maintenance, disease prevention, diagnoses and treatment solutions more precisely selectable for each individual.
Precision Medicine and Your Health Story
As precision medicine continues to advance and evolve, ensuring the data collection process provides an accurate representation of all races and nationalities will be key to creating insights that are actionable.
Developing an Opioid Abuse Program: Three Guidelines from Model Practices
Using our Davies Award recipients as case studies, we've identified three critical areas health systems should consider when building a comprehensive opioid abuse program.
Social Determinants of Health: Breaking Down the Barriers
Did you know that social determinants of health can affect up to 70% of health outcomes? Building a healthier future means addressing the existence of health disparities.
Removing Patient Transport Barriers with Innovative Partnerships
A look into how a health system developed a patient transport program to improve health outcomes by partnering with other organizations.
Genomic Data and Blockchain: A New Paradigm for Precision Medicine and Science
While there is still a long way to go before we have the ability to understand how individuals and their genomes interact to cause disease – and therefore use that genomic data to improve health – there is progress, shares our guest blogger.
Mitigating Barriers to Interoperability in Health Care
Powell, K. & Alexander, G. (Summer, 2019). Mitigating Barriers to Interoperability in Health Care. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 23(2). Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni
A Powerful Reminder of How Health IT Improves Patient Safety
Our #IHeartHIT contributor shares how, following the birth of his third child, a personal experience with patient safety reminded him why health IT is so important.
Health IT: We’ve Come a Long Way But There’s Further to Go
A health IT professional shares that while much has changed in healthcare during her journey with the autoimmune disease lupus, there is still much to be done.
Overcoming Obstacles to Social Determinants of Health
There are many obstacles keeping us from integrating the social determinants of health into healthcare. But where do we start with addressing them? Our team outlines the top priority.
The Health Impact of Unique Identifiers for Nursing Documentation
With unique identifiers for nursing documentation, we have the opportunity to capture not only what happens during a patient-provider interaction, but also measure the impact of nurses in improving individual and population health outcomes.