We’re proud to announce this year’s well-deserving group of HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award recipients, who have all played an integral role in making the health information and technology workforce a better place. Learn more about this year’s award recipients and how they’re helping transform health information and technology.

We’re calling all champions of health – those of us committed to improve health and well-being – to unite at HIMSS19 to reimagine health and meet the revolution head-on.

What does it mean to be a champion of health? Explore these perspectives: the trailblazer, the influencer, the disruptor, and the gamechanger.

Keep checking the HIMSS19 blog for updates and conference hot topic overviews:

• Getting Started on Your Journey to Improved Outcomes
• A Glimpse of Consumer-Centered Healthcare
• HIMSS Davies Award Success Stories: Maximizing Value of Care
• Interoperability: The Foundation of Impactful Health Innovation
• What Makes the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase™ Important?

Healthcare leaders around the world face a multitude of difficulties and opportunities across administrative, financial, operational and technical aspects when delivering patient care. Ensuring that a healthcare organization is well prepared to meet these growing challenges – while maintaining clinical excellence and technical competence – is imperative to sustaining one’s competitive advantage.

We are pleased to introduce the Harvard Medical School Executive Education Program for HIMSS. This innovative three-day program will deliver highly relevant education to meet the increasing responsibilities of today’s healthcare leaders.
Learn more and register for Data, Insights and Strategies for the Health Enterprise.

Explore related thought leadership content from HIMSS:
How to Achieve Organizational Goals With Your Data
What’s Driving the Global Transformation of Care Delivery?
Health Innovation: Are We Getting it Right?
What’s Driving Data-Based Decision-Making?

Share your thoughts on the 2019 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey. Instituted as an annual cybersecurity survey in 2015, the HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey gauges the perceptions and practices of healthcare organizations on a number of cybersecurity topics facing the health sector. The survey link will be open through Dec. 13.
Why Participate?

• Gain insight into how your organization’s cybersecurity program compares to your peers
• Understand what healthcare providers and third party vendors are doing to safeguard health information
• Learn about the opportunities to improve healthcare cybersecurity

Get the details and take the survey here.

Help us understand your 2019 staffing and technology priorities by taking the HIMSS Leadership and Workforce Survey. HIMSS is looking to uncover trends and gain valuable insight into the rapidly changing market for healthcare information and technology professionals. We’d like your expertise on staffing needs as well as any issues driving your organization’s efforts in the coming year. Survey participants can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. The deadline to take the survey is Dec. 13.
Take the survey.

In this weekly HIMSS TV highlight, we explore how virtual reality rehab is advancing prosthetic limb technology. Watch the clip now.

In Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Based Learning
Artificial intelligence is no longer something only dreamt about in sci-fi fantasies. Today we’re applying artificial intelligence and machine-based learning to the real world of healthcare. Hear from fellow healthcare professionals on how we can continue moving the needle forward.

• AI in Healthcare Explained in 280 Characters or Less
• The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Society
• AI and Machine-Based Learning in Healthcare: Beyond the Buzzwords
• AI and Nursing Impact on the Quadruple Aim

Get a high-level overview of the midterm election results from congressional affairs expert and a state midterms election recap from our state government affairs expert at HIMSS as we enter a new season of advocacy and education for legislators to accomplish health information and technology policy goals.

Read about the inspiring innovations created to amplify awareness through create solutions addressing the issue of infant mortality. This week, HIMSS announced the three winning submissions from the developer challenge – learn more in this HIMSS Innovation Center blog post.

Hospital for Special Surgery was recognized as 2018 HIMSS Davies Award recipient for leveraging the value of health information and technology, as evidenced in their three use case submissions. Their use cases focused on optimizing consumer access and operational efficiency with technology improvements, reducing peak wait times for patients, and census reporting and clinical pathway management as means to improve capacity and optimize patient care.
Read this announcement based on their award-winning case study to learn more:
Hospital for Special Surgery Tackles Patient Volume Challenges
Get a deeper dive during their session at HIMSS19 – learn more.

In the latest episode of STEPS To Value, “The Value of Engaging Pediatric Patients in Design Thinking,” Gokul Krishnan, director of Maker Therapy at WestEd, explains how Lucile Packard Hospital has created maker spaces to improve the mental well-being of chronically ill children and their families while they spend time in the hospital.