Technology’s Vital Role in Healthcare and Society
Our guest writer reflects on the importance of technology in healthcare.
Connected Health – It’s Personal
Learn why connected health is a hot topic of conversation in this blog post from HIMSS connected health subject matter expert, John Sharp.
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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#ThinkDigitalHealth – The Message for Nurses
Kaminski, J. (Nov, 2018). #ThinkDigitalHealth – The Message for Nurses. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 22(3). Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni
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.
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.
Weighing Options: Perceptions of Adult Patients Accessing Telehealth in Primary Care
This study in the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics aimed to learn how and why patients select telehealth and about perceptions of adult patients in an urban setting when telehealth encounters were available.
TEFCA and Blockchain: Enabling Trusted Data Flow Between Health Networks
TEFCA aims to create an ecosystem that allows for free data flow of health information between separate health networks. Our Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force shares how blockchain can help make this possible.
Caregiver Support and the Potential of Technology
As millennials become caregivers, they’ll have an opportunity to leverage their deep understanding of technology, especially as they start to look for caregiver support tools, but they’ll also need to find a balance.
Blockchain in Healthcare’s Transformative Power to Support Trusted Exchange
Our Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force outlines how blockchain can support healthcare data exchange and should be explored as an innovative option for addressing regulatory exchange requirements for interoperability.
Communication and Collaboration: Key to Advancing Innovation Policy
How we approach innovation policy is key to the future of health globally.
The Impact on Underserved Communities in Times of Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread throughout the globe and the United States and exposed the fragile state of our healthcare system, specifically in underserved communities.