Mitigating Barriers to Interoperability in Health Care
Powell, K. & Alexander, G. (Summer, 2019). Mitigating Barriers to Interoperability in Health Care. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 23(2). Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni
Leveraging Digital Health to Improve Patient Satisfaction
Using case studies from Davies Award recipients as models, discover how leveraging digital health tools can boost overall patient satisfaction.
How to Move the Needle on Vaccines for Children
Standards and resources are some of the biggest challenges hindering the transfer of information on vaccines for children. A pediatrician and health IT advocate outlines both the struggles and the solutions needed to tackle this public health challenge.
Complex Pediatric Home Health and the Potential of Interoperability
A father shares his family's experience with pediatric home health and how interoperability could positively impact so many lives.
Five Growing Health Information and Technology Jobs
These health information and technology jobs are playing a major role in shaping the industry’s next chapter.
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.
Determining the Measures of Success for Interoperability
Our Interoperability & HIE Committee chair asks what are the measures of success for interoperability maturity and what parameters or indicators should be measured?
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.
Breaking the Barriers to Rural Elderly Care with Design Thinking
Innovative thinking can help address complex issues that have eluded us for years, like access to elderly care, care coordination for chronic conditions, social isolation and loneliness, and medication management.
Patient Safety and Cybersecurity: Seeing the Bigger Picture
Our director of privacy and security shares how healthcare organizations need to think beyond their EHR when it comes to patient safety and cybersecurity.