Blockchain in Healthcare
To better understand the basics and the potential application of blockchain in healthcare, this guide will walk you through key elements of the technology.
Accelerate Health
It’s time for a bold approach to healthcare innovation. Get comfortable being uncomfortable with Accelerate Health: an innovation-focused content and connectivity platform from HIMSS that walks the cutting edge of healthcare.
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Social Determinants of Health
Discover more about the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age—and their broad impact on health, health equity and overall well-being in this guide.
Sample Risk Assessment for Cloud Computing in Healthcare
Learn how to conduct a cloud-related risk assessment. It's a critical part of your healthcare organization's security risk assessment process.
HIMSS Population Health Management and Capabilities Model
Interact with a new HIMSS population health management model that identifies population health domains and capabilities, and maps nearly 500 functions to Value-Based Care (VBC) payment models to help bring clarity to your population health efforts.
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.
The Importance of Good Governance
Our guest writer shares while often overlooked, governance in a healthcare organization's information and technology can lead to a higher level of trust by patients.
Technology’s Vital Role in Healthcare and Society
Our guest writer reflects on the importance of technology in healthcare.
Medication Process Compliance in Pediatric Inpatients – Time to the First
For most medical conditions, reducing the time between intent to treat and actual treatment is beneficial. The goal of this study was to determine the current state of the medication process at a university-affiliated children’s hospital. [Haresh L. Bhatia, Neal R. Patel, Catherine H. Ivory, Ph...
Examining the Characteristics of Health-Related Gaming Interventions Among Congenital Heart Disease Patients: A Scoping Review
Health related gaming is an alternative medium for the delivery of patient education materials. To date, these types of interventions have been used throughout the healthcare environment, however no extensive review has been conducted to determine the characteristics of these interventions. The a...
Electronic Patient Portals: Patient and Provider Perceptions
An electronic patient portal is a potentially powerful tool to facilitate self-management support for patients with multiple chronic conditions; however, patients are not taking advantage of this resource.