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A New Meaning for Connected Health at 2016 Symposium (Part 4)

Andy Oram | EMR & HIPPA | October 8, 2016

He has found that successful companies pursue gradual, incremental steps toward automated programs. It is important to start with a manual process that works (such as phoning or texting patients from the provider), then move to semi-automation and finally, if feasible, full automation. The product must also be field-tested; one cannot depend on a pilot. This advice matches what Glen Tullman, CEO of Livongo Health, said in his keynote: instead of doing a pilot, try something out in the field and change quickly if it doesn’t work...

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Chuck Lauer: An IT Boondoggle?

Chuck Lauer | Becker's Hospital Review | October 8, 2012

A recent Wall Street Journal article left me speechless. Like a lot of other people in healthcare I have been indoctrinated with the belief that unless the industry fully and enthusiastically adopts information technology, hospital and health systems will never run efficiently and be able to deliver quality healthcare to patients... Read More »

CMIOs, Nurses Want Medical Device Integration with EMRs

Ken Terry | Fierce Health IT | November 7, 2011

HIMSS Analytics has released a research report, sponsored by medical device technology company Capsule, that examines the evolving roles of chief medical information officers and chief nursing officers and how they view medical device integration with electronic medical records. Read More »

Connecting Patient Data Solving Healthcare Interoperability and the ONC Blockchain Challenge

Peter B. Nichol | CIO | August 24, 2016

Interoperability is an old concept dating back to the eighth century BC. Society has been struggling for centuries with the idea of combining individual parts or components to create a whole unit. However, interoperability with healthcare only came about in published works 23 years ago, in 1993. More recently, in 2013, HIMSS defined of healthcare interoperability as “the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data and use the information that has been exchanged”...

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Does Healthcare Need a More Modern Way to Define and Measure EHR Interoperability?

Diana Manos | Healthcare IT News | August 18, 2016

KLAS executive vice president Taylor Davis said that measuring interoperability can get messy because the EHR market is currently immature. Industry experts and the federal government are divided on the best way to assess the state of the nation’s health IT interoperability. The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT, for instance, has proposed using CIO surveys to gauge the status of interoperability among and between healthcare organizations...

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Doing the Right Thing

Joanne Rohde | Axiel Project | February 28, 2012

Having just returned from HIMSS, the Supershow of Health Information Technology, I'm trying to shake off the flashing lights, Health IT booth-turned-pub, the DeLorean silver car and other attention grabbers to see what the potential of $40B of our tax money to be spent on incentives means for improving the state of health care information technology in the country. Read More »

Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) Takes Front Stage at PHI2018 Conference

By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | August 27, 2018

But the real buzz at the conference seemed to be about electronic case reporting (eCR). This refers to the national effort to replace the current paper and FAX process of submitting reportable conditions from clinical care sites to state and local public health agencies with a more automated electronic process fed from electronic health records (EHRs)...HLN demonstrated the workflow for eCR at the HIMSS18 Interoperability Showcase. However, we did not see a lot of interest on eCR at the HIMSS conference. At PHI2018 we had significant interest, both among public health officials who were anxious to see how they could initiate eCR in their jurisdictions, and other vendor and stakeholder groups who seemed to feel eCR was becoming viable and more “real.”

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Glasses Half Full and Empty: EHR Use Has Doubled, But...

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | February 21, 2012

With $3.1 billion awarded to doctors who are buying and learning how to use electronic health records (EHRs), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleeen Sebelius told a Kansas City community college that 41,000 doctors and 2,000 hospitals were on the road to meaningfully using the technology — double the number of EHR users in 2 years. Read More »

Halamka's Recommendations for Effective Care Management

By John D. Halamka, MD | January 25, 2017

I recently joined the advisory board of Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, a leading provider of analytics, decision support, and workflow enhancement services. At my first advisory board meeting there was a rich debate about the marketplace for care management and population health tools. I’ve spent years studying such solutions at HIMSS and found most of the products are “compiled in Powerpoint”, which is a very agile programming language, since it’s so easy to change…

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HIMSS Releases "Health IT Value Suite"

By Peter Groen | July 17, 2013

On July 16, HIMSS announced the release of their Health IT Value Suite. It is a very useful and comprehensive knowledge repository that "classifies, quantifies and articulates the clinical, financial and business impact of health IT investments." It will be useful to vendors and users of both proprietary and 'open source' health IT solutions. Read More »

HIMSS Takes Over mHealth Summit

Eric Wicklund | Government Health IT | February 16, 2012

Last year, HIMSS became an organizing partner for the mHealth Summit, a three-day event in Washington D.C. that attracted a wide range of academics, providers and entrepreneurs interested in the mobile healthcare landscape. Officials of the Chicago-based organization must have liked what they saw – they now own the event. Read More »

HIMSS: Its Time Has Come and Gone

Anne Zieger | Hospital EMR and EHR | February 15, 2012

But just because something’s fun doesn’t mean it’s on target, and I think it’s worth asking whether all of this blood, sweat and tears would be better invested elsewhere. Is HIMSS really worth our time and energy anymore?

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Hospitals Slowly Moving Toward Stage 1 of Meaningful Use

Anne Zieger | Hospital EMR and EHR | February 18, 2012

According to HIMSS researchers, hospitals in the seven categories above are moving faster than their peers when it comes to IT adoption. Hospitals at the high end of EMRAM are moving up more quickly, as well. As hospitals geared up to meet Stage 1, researchers say, the number of hospitals at stages 6 and 7 of EMRAM is growing as well... Read More »

How Does an Entrepreneur Help His Fiancé Fight Cancer? With Open Source Tools, of Course.

By Jorge Cortell | April 26, 2016

My name is Jorge. I started Kanteron Systems, a medical imaging open-source software company, in Valencia (Spain) in 2005. In 2011 I moved to New York to open our US subsidiary. While living in New York, I started dating a woman that was battling breast cancer. Her name is Stephanie. Stephanie’s oncologist was at Beth Israel Cancer Center, her surgeon at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, and her radiation therapist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). As I held her hand through the process twice (she had surgery, and a recurrence a year later) and met with her doctors, I saw first-hand how broken many cancer-care processes involving data and medical imaging sharing were.

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How Open Source Software is Being Used for Health Information Exchange

Staff | Morgan Hunter Healthcare Blog | June 22, 2012

Back in 2010, a task force convened by the HIMSS Health Information Exchange (HIE) Open Source Task Force focused on assessing how open source software was being used by HIE organizations....The Task Force identified several open source development organizations that were solely dedicated to healthcare information technology. The majority of the Task Force’s work effort occurred between September, 2009, and April, 2010, and these organizations are still in the forefront of the movement... Read More »