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To better understand the basics and the potential application of blockchain in healthcare, this guide will walk you through key elements of the technology.

Discover key insights about interoperability and better understand how data sharing can make a difference in healthcare.

In today’s world, discover how cybersecurity in healthcare—and protecting information—is vital for essential functions within an organization.

Discover key insights about global health informatics, the related competencies and how these can be applied in the workforce.

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. 

Learn how to conduct a cloud-related risk assessment. It's a critical part of your healthcare organization's security risk assessment process.

Stay up to date on healthcare cybersecurity news by reading the monthly HIMSS Heathcare and Cross-Sector Cybersecurity report.

The HIMSS TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) Initiative’s Global Informatics Definitions define core global health informatics terminology, including varying terms for similar concepts applied locally, regionally and nationally to maximize the integration of informatics on...

This paper explores the implications that are most notable in today’s healthcare world within the nursing and healthcare informatics fields.

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