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

It’s time for a bold approach to healthcare innovation. Get comfortable being uncomfortable with Accelerate Health: an innovation-focused content and connectivity platform from HIMSS that walks the cutting edge of healthcare.

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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.

The purpose of this policy is to establish guidance on short message service (SMS) text messaging by members of the healthcare workforce and address security risks presented by SMS text messaging [Lisa Storck].

Interact with a new HIMSS population health management model that identifies population health domains and capabilities, and maps nearly 500 functions to Value-Based Care (VBC) payment models to help bring clarity to your population health efforts.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits and barriers of implementing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in the healthcare sector and to provide recommendations to overcome potential barriers. 

Blockchain's potential to disrupt and change healthcare has led to questions and concerns. Our Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force is working to find solutions and drive the path forward.

Once recorded, the beauty of blockchain technology is that the data is inalterable without the modification of all subsequent blocks, which requires the majority of the network to work together.

Explore part 2 of this blockchain blog series, authored by HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force members.

Genomics testing can help to determine not only your lineage but what health factors of which to be aware now and as you age. Explore some of the basics of genomics, the roles and impact of these new data, and the implications for precision health.