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...
Clinically Integrated Outcomes Strategy for Quality and Safety White Paper
Quality and safety are fundamental goals in all global healthcare systems. HIMSS is proposing a new strategy for addressing patient safety and the growing rates of preventable deaths and injuries from adverse events.
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.
Reimagining Healthcare Innovation to Overcome the Real-World Challenge of Maternal Health White Paper
Our Innovation Committee and collaborators lay out innovative solutions to the global healthcare challenge of improving maternal health.
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.
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 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.
Crisis as a Catalyst for Innovation Report
This paper focuses on innovation opportunities fueled by COVID-19 crisis that help catalyze better outcomes and continuity of care with unprecedented demand for patient-centered Hospital-at-Home(HaH) models (pioneered & trademarked by Johns Hopkins Medicine).
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 Transformation Report
On November 2nd, 2021, healthcare technology company Philips partnered with HIMSS to deliver the virtual Executive Think Tank, Leading the Journey to Digital Health Transformation.