Leveraging Information Technology to Improve Vaccination Rates in America’s Communities
The CDC shares how they, in partnership with the NCIRD, are taking steps to leverage EHRs to improve vaccination rates.
Meet the 2018 Most Influential Women in Health IT Awardees
These award recipients represent the highest standards of leadership and are respected and recognized as role models to peers in the field.
Opioid Safety Scores in EMR Improve Patient Outcomes
HIMSS Analytics is proud to recognize Sparrow Health System for its revalidation as a Stage 7 healthcare system, as tracked by the EMRAM/O-EMRAM.
Recognizing the Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders
HIMSS announces foundation-supported and chapter-supported scholarship recipients.
Collaborating to Improve Immunization Data Sharing to Ensure Healthy Communities
Gathering and sharing accurate information on who has or has not been immunized and where the vaccine stockpiles may be located are important components of the public health strategy to overcome disease.
Meet the HIMSS18 Veterans Career Services Scholarship Recipients
The HIMSS Veterans Career Services (VCS) Initiative, sponsored by HIMSS Chapters, welcomes transitioning military veterans into the health information and technology field.
Analysis: CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Regulation
Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals will be required to send electronic patient event notifications of a patient’s admission, discharge and/or transfer to another healthcare facility or to another community practitioner as one of their Conditions of Participation for the Medicare and M...
CARES Act Includes $500 Million to Modernize the Nation’s Public Health Data Infrastructure
The CARES Act includes $500 million that solidifies congressional and Trump Administration support for Data: Elemental to Health, a multi-year campaign to modernize the public health infrastructure in the United States.
CARES Act Provisions for Healthcare and Health IT
The CARES Act stimulus package, totaling over $2.2 trillion, addresses many facets of society, including healthcare delivery, state funding, small business and non-profit relief, and overall economic stimulus.
States Tackling COVID-19 Using Information and Technology
As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continues to grow, state policymakers in the United States are taking extensive actions to manage the spread through information and technology.
Analysis: ONC Interoperability and Information Blocking Final Regulation
ONC’s Final Regulation is intended to allow the flow of critical clinical information from system to system and provider to provider in part to facilitate better decision support and support new alternative payment models for care.
HHS OIG Releases Proposed Regulation on Information Blocking Civil Money Penalties
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a Proposed Regulation on Civil Money Penalties related to the information blocking provisions included in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Interoperability Regulation.
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