Healthcare Informatics
This paper explores the implications that are most notable in today’s healthcare world within the nursing and healthcare informatics fields.
HIMSS Population Health Management and Capabilities Model
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 Benefits and Barriers to RFID Technology in Healthcare
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.
Information Sharing: What Is It? How to Do It? Why Does It Matter?
Our cybersecurity subject matter expert shares how in healthcare, information sharing is vital to the security and safety of the entire industry.
Technology’s Vital Role in Healthcare and Society
Our guest writer reflects on the importance of technology in healthcare.
Genomics – Getting the Right Data
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.
Definition of Customer Relationship Management Technology in Healthcare
Defining CRM in healthcare.
Examining the Characteristics of Health-Related Gaming Interventions Among Congenital Heart Disease Patients: A Scoping Review
Health related gaming is an alternative medium for the delivery of patient education materials. To date, these types of interventions have been used throughout the healthcare environment, however no extensive review has been conducted to determine the characteristics of these interventions. The a...
Electronic Patient Portals: Patient and Provider Perceptions
An electronic patient portal is a potentially powerful tool to facilitate self-management support for patients with multiple chronic conditions; however, patients are not taking advantage of this resource.
Could the Internet of Things Be Used to Enhance Student Nurses’ Experiences in a Disaster Simulation?
Schools of nursing recognized the need to prepare future nurses to care for victims, and function as part of the interprofessional team for all stages of disasters. Simulation has been one means to do this, with many schools investing much time and energy to create extensive disaster simulations....
Capturing and Evaluating Process Semantics from Front-Line Nurses: A Pilot Study
Tacit clinical knowledge acquired by front-line nurses over many years of practice is notoriously difficult to capture and codify. This study aims to enable front-line nurses to capture their own process domain semantics and constructs ontologies from the semantics and rank semantic similiarity....
Connected Health – It’s Personal
Learn why connected health is a hot topic of conversation in this blog post from HIMSS connected health subject matter expert, John Sharp.