Technology’s Vital Role in Healthcare and Society
Our guest writer reflects on the importance of technology in healthcare.
Increase Vaccination Rates: Adopt a Common Framework for Digital Immunization Data
"With the HIMSS IIP interface, we’re able to get a more comprehensive amount of data for each and every vaccination."
Seamless Exchange of Immunization Data: A Population Health Priority
Health IT plays an important role in streamlining the workflows that enable clinicians to deliver the most up-to-date care, while also helping prevent the spread of disease.
Tackling the Opioid Epidemic with Information & Innovation
The opioid epidemic didn’t start with just one cause, which means only a multi-faceted approach will work in combating it.
Infant Mortality Awareness: Innovating for Improved Outcomes
Perfecting the right combination of people, innovative thinking and protocols involved is critical to reducing infant mortality. With more ways to support women before, during and after pregnancy, there is increased potential for improved outcomes and eliminating health disparities.
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The Grateful Patient: Experiencing Healthcare from Both Sides
One healthcare professional's story of how her experiences as a patient ignited her passion for the field.
Health Challenges in Underserved Communities
Two leaders at the intersection of health, technology and underserved communities see potential to create tech solutions for health issues facing Latinx youth from immigrant families across the nation.
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.
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.
Leveraging Digital Health to Improve Patient Satisfaction
Using case studies from Davies Award recipients as models, discover how leveraging digital health tools can boost overall patient satisfaction.