Digital Health: A Framework for Healthcare Transformation White Paper
This white paper shares a framework for building the digitally enabled health system of the future with a focus on health and wellness and a transformational impact on care delivery and quality.
Smarter Supply Chain Management: Four Ways to Increase Clinical Integration
Here are four tips to help your organization improve its supply chain management through clinical integration.
Quality Care Program Development Case Studies
Heritage Living Center was named a HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award recipient for leveraging the value of health information and technology to improve outcomes.
Alleviating Nurse Burnout with Digital Health Tools
Nursing is a demanding, stressful job that can cause mental, emotional and physical exhaustion. Combined with the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of nurse burnout will only continue to climb, but there are digital health tools that can help reduce this burden.
The Impact on Underserved Communities in Times of Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread throughout the globe and the United States and exposed the fragile state of our healthcare system, specifically in underserved communities.
Healthcare Interoperability and Its Impact on Administrative Burden in the Age of Machine Learning
Interoperability is the ability to transfer healthcare-related information across systems and organizational boundaries. This article focuses on reducing administrative burdens tied to interoperability and machine learning.
Artificial Intelligence in Health: Ethical Considerations for Research and Practice
This article examines four core principles necessary to address the design, development and use of AI technology and ethical considerations for research and practice.
Improving Clinical Communications: A Smartphone for Every Nurse
This article explores challenges in ensuring effective clinical communications for patients and orthopedic care teams at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery. The use of smartphone platforms and apps helps nurses spend more time with patients and expedite bedside communic...
Health Information and Technology and Its Impact on Digital Health
This article reviews changes in the health information and technology field in the past two decades. Healthcare technology has continuously changed and evolved from the basic use of a computer for submitting healthcare claims to currently utilizing technology for every level of patient care. Digi...
Empowering Patients with Access to Health Records through Distributed Applications
Our guest writer shares how blockchain and distributed applications can help provide patients with control of their health records and the ability to grant access to providers at the point of care.
Six Ways to Unleash the Potential of Telehealth
Explore six ways to expand the potential of telehealth, with insights on barriers, benefits and best practices.
AI in Healthcare: How It’s Changing the Industry
Healthcare has always involved the intersection of human judgement and scientific data. And AI in healthcare is bringing the two elements closer than ever. From big data to policy, here are seven ways artificial intelligence is significantly changing healthcare.