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this Issue: Informatics Impacting and Transforming Communities
This issue of Clinical Informatics Insights discusses care coordination and how informaticists are impacting and transforming their communities.
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| State of the Industry |
Food for Thought
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By Lindsey Hoggle, MS, RD, PMP, Director, Nutrition Informatics, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Health Project Partners, LLC
Any clinician caring for patients has a few patient events that likely haunt them. Most consider food and nutrition to be a fairly “safe” area of patient care. While I no longer practice in acute care clinical nutrition, I have inherited continued worries from colleagues.
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Seamlessly Sharing Information Across Communities of Care
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By Ida M. Androwich, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN
Of great importance to patients, nursing, and thus to nursing informaticists (NI), is the ability to seamlessly share information form one setting to another. There are two aspects to optimal information sharing.
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Big Data & Science for Transforming Health Care
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By Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, FAAN, Vice President, Informatics, HIMSS North America
I am assuming that you, like me, attend a number of conferences each year. Some are good, some are OK, and few are memorable. But one of the more memorable events I attended this year was the 2014 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data & Science for Transforming Health Care Conference, hosted by the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing.
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Essentials of the US Hospital IT Market Report Findings
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By Lorren Pettit, MBA, Vice President, Market Research, HIMSS Analytics
This month marks the release of the Clinical Services volume of HIMSS Analytics’ Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market (9th edition). In this report, our researchers analyzed the utilization of hospital based clinical information technologies not intimately associated with HIMSS Analytics’ EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM).
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Register for the July Physician Webinar “Improving the Health of High Risk Populations with Mobile Technology”
ED visits represent only 2-7% of healthcare spending in the US. While the ED visit is not the issue, some patients do not have other sources of care or have unmanaged chronic problems that forces them to become users of high cost healthcare resources. To improve the health of these high-risk populations, utilizing mHealth has shown strong potential to prevent long-term healthcare use of these patients. Join us on Thursday, July 17 at 1:00 p.m. CT for this complimentary webinar.
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI) releases June 2014 issue
View OJNI’s most recent issue, which contains articles and editorials geared towards the latest emerging trends and hot topics in nursing informatics. Launched in 1996 with readership spanning over 49 countries, OJNI is a free, peer-reviewed publication that supports all functional areas of nursing informatics.
IHE International’s Patient Care Coordination Committee (PCC) Domain Update 2014
Join IHE International’s PCC domain for a complimentary educational webinar on July 31, 2014 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. CT, as we provide an overview of the domain including current activities and roadmap items, profiles and a white paper developed for Trial Implementation in 2015.
AHDI Healthcare Documentation Integrity Conference
HIMSS is proud to announce its support for the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) Conference. At AHDI’s conference, July 23-26, 2014 in Las Vegas, you will find engaging education that is content-rich and focused on current issues facing the health information profession today. HIMSS Members save $50 off the list price of registration. Use coupon code HDIC1450 at checkout. Download the full conference brochure for complete session descriptions, speaker biographies and conference information.
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| Book of the month |
The HIMSS Books July Book of the Month, Analytics in Healthcare: An Introduction, provides a clear, straightforward roadmap to achieving your goals within the domain of healthcare analytics. Whether you are a student looking for a career path or a staff member within a healthcare organization needing to apply the value that your institution’s data can provide, this manual will give you direction. Get your copy today!
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Compiled by Cheryl D. Parker
