Addressing Prior Authorization with Blockchain, the First Step in Revenue Cycle Transformation
Our guest writer shares how focusing on one function within revenue cycle management, prior authorization, can give insight into potential solutions for streamlining the healthcare system.
Healthcare Industry Innovators Embracing Healthy Disruption
Whether it’s building better dashboards or uplifting underrepresented individuals in healthcare, there is still so much to be done in innovating for improvement in the healthcare industry. Thanks to the courage of these industry trailblazers, a better future for health is closer.
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.
Demonstrating the Value of Nursing Care Through Use of a Unique Nurse Identifier
As healthcare transitions to a value-based reimbursement model, nursing documentation in EHRs and other health IT systems will increasingly be used to demonstrate nursing’s contribution to that value.
Implementing Protocols that Save Lives
The story of how one healthcare professional became enamored with using data for research and care improvements.
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 Doctor-Patient Relationship Is Shifting: Here’s How
Roles are shifting in the healthcare system, uprooting the traditional doctor-patient relationship. Explore perspectives about how doctors and patients have the opportunity to build collaborative partnerships.
Guest Editorial: Dinosaurs, Data and Lists
The incredibly positive outcome of the explosion of informatics is data. Data allow clinicians to make best practice decisions in an evidence-based environment. Data escalates the ability to deliver excellent patient care and drive process improvement. Data can help nurses bec...
What’s Next for Health: Transforming the Global Health Ecosystem
As we look toward a brighter future for the global health ecosystem, Hal Wolf, HIMSS President & CEO, was asked to answer three questions around how HIMSS is driving what’s next for health. Read what he had to say.
The Four Observed Ps of Health Influencers
The healthcare community has a wealth of health influencers, but those who have an exceptional reputation in the digital space excel by living in the nexus of four areas.
What’s Next for Health: Searching for Resilient Changemakers
The HIMSS core set of values: curiosity, belonging, integrity, tenacity and simplicity, enable us to create a better future and to fulfill our mission. Janella Kaczanko, vice president of human resources, recently discussed the search for future changemakers and the power of the core values.
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