Nurses Role in Health Equity: Crucial Collaboration Leveraging SDOH Tools
Learn how to leverage SDOH tools to increase collaboration.
Digital Maturity Helps in the Fight Against Pandemics
This edition of the HIMSS Insights eBook, which focuses on the Middle East, includes case studies that demonstrate the essential role played by interoperability in the development of new patient services and information sharing.
Complementing Chiefs: Understanding the CIO and CISO Relationship
A CIO and CISO often complement each other and are essential parts of a healthcare organization’s information and technology family.
Digital Connected Care: Workflows by the Clinician, for the Clinician
Clinicians must guide system developers on how to support specific clinical workflows with digital tools to facilitate improved outcomes for the patient and care team.
Accelerating Patient Privacy and Data Security
Anshu Sharma discusses a zero-trust data vault that any healthcare IT company can put into production in a few hours or days.
Accelerating Visual Data
Emrah Gultekin discusses computer visualization that can rapidly ingest and process visual data from any spectrum, generating AI models in hours that can detect objects, actions, processes, coordinates, states and more.
Digital Health Passports: Key Considerations for Interoperability and Data Exchange
The HIMSS Interoperability & HIE Committee authored a white paper on the highly relevant and current topic of digital health passports, looking at vaccine passports amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cell Phones and Your Health
This is an editorial discussing a personal experience with technology and health related applications and was previously submitted as a graduate student assignment.
Associated Factors with Electronic Personal Health Records Use among Older Cancer Survivors: An Application of Anderson’s Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to eHealth Services
Electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are commonly viewed as potential tools to improve clinical outcomes through increasing patients’ ability to self-manage healthcare. Older cancer survivors could be benefited from using ePHRs for their supportive care. This study aims to examine factors...
Using a "think-aloud" process to aid co-design in development of a medicine information needs assessment tool
This paper describes one part of a multi-stage project aiming to develop a new tool to assist nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to better meet the medicine information needs of consumers.
Targeted Efforts Towards Advancing Adoption of a Unique Nurse Identifier
Proof of concept (POC) pilots demonstrate nursing's powerful impact in clinical practice scenarios. Initial POCs follow advanced practice nurses' journey through education, career changes, advancing education, obtaining certifications, and measuring nursing outcomes to improve practice in all set...
Reimagine Health: Creating space for Nursing Informatics in the Vision
The theme for this year’s HIMSS22 coming up on March 14 – 18 in Orlando, Florida and online is “Reimagine Health”. In an interview done for Healthcare Finance, HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf explained why this theme was selected. “HIMSS looked at what has fundamentally changed," said CEO Hal Wolf....