Cybersecurity Frameworks Explained
All organizations are targets for cyberattacks, no matter the industry, location or size. Discover how a cybersecurity framework can help improve your defenses, enhance incident detection and minimize impact.
A Powerful Reminder of How Health IT Improves Patient Safety
Our #IHeartHIT contributor shares how, following the birth of his third child, a personal experience with patient safety reminded him why health IT is so important.
Health IT: We’ve Come a Long Way But There’s Further to Go
A health IT professional shares that while much has changed in healthcare during her journey with the autoimmune disease lupus, there is still much to be done.
Overcoming Obstacles to Social Determinants of Health
There are many obstacles keeping us from integrating the social determinants of health into healthcare. But where do we start with addressing them? Our team outlines the top priority.
The Health Impact of Unique Identifiers for Nursing Documentation
With unique identifiers for nursing documentation, we have the opportunity to capture not only what happens during a patient-provider interaction, but also measure the impact of nurses in improving individual and population health outcomes.
National Health Information and Technology Leadership Award
The National Health Information and Technology Leadership Award recognizes a federal or state legislative or executive branch leader (or their staff) who has made a significant contribution meriting national recognition to the health information and technology field. HIMSS members who provid...
Leveraging Digital Health to Improve Patient Satisfaction
Using case studies from Davies Award recipients as models, discover how leveraging digital health tools can boost overall patient satisfaction.
Four Health Information Security Questions Answered
To help identify and implement strategies that mitigate risk and foster trust within your organization, we asked healthcare security leaders the following four questions. Here’s what they had to say.
How to Move the Needle on Vaccines for Children
Standards and resources are some of the biggest challenges hindering the transfer of information on vaccines for children. A pediatrician and health IT advocate outlines both the struggles and the solutions needed to tackle this public health challenge.
Pharmacy Informatics and Its Cross-Functional Role in Healthcare
Our guest writer shares the five key responsibilities of pharmacy informatics and how specialists in the field work closely with other healthcare professionals to keep patients safe.
How the Smart City Movement and IT Are Transforming Health
The smart city movement is driven by the demands of an evolving digital ecosystem and governmental systems across the globe are reaching for IT to modernize systems while simultaneously improving the quality of life for citizens.
Building a Learning Health System for Today and for the Future
Now is the time for health IT leaders to internalize the characteristics of learning health systems and advocate to all of their constituencies so that we can make great strides in improving health and healthcare and reducing costs. Not only can we use health IT to share evidence with c...