The Future of Healthcare: Complex Needs Require Patient-Centered Solutions
Healthcare has traditionally involved care of patients with single acute medical conditions and mental disorders. Patients received treatment, got better, and were then discharged. However, this traditional approach is becoming increasingly untenable in the modern world.
Crisis as a Catalyst for Innovation Report
This paper focuses on innovation opportunities fueled by COVID-19 crisis that help catalyze better outcomes and continuity of care with unprecedented demand for patient-centered Hospital-at-Home(HaH) models (pioneered & trademarked by Johns Hopkins Medicine).
Immunization Query Response Workflow Functionalities Catalog
The IIP Multiple Match Query Workgroup in collaboration with the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Drummond Group developed a catalog of functionalities that both E...
Digital Health Transformation Report
On November 2nd, 2021, healthcare technology company Philips partnered with HIMSS to deliver the virtual Executive Think Tank, Leading the Journey to Digital Health Transformation.
Strategies to Address Multiple Patients Matched in an Immunization Query
What healthcare administrators and IIS managers should know about multiple/inexact matches: Strategies to Address Multiple Patients Matched in an Immunization Query
Expanding Health Data Utility Models and Advancing Standards for Public Health
. Join the HIMSS Interoperability & HIE Community as experts in public health data exchange discuss the latest capabilities to improve exchange in the healthcare system.
Digital Health Passports: Key Considerations for Interoperability and Data Exchange
The HIMSS Interoperability & HIE Committee authored a white paper on the highly relevant and current topic of digital health passports, looking at vaccine passports amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Digital Connected Care: Convergence & Evolution of Workflows
Clinicians must guide system developers on how to support specific clinical applications with evidence of improved outcomes for the patient and care team.
Emerging Behavioral Health Innovations
Find out what is happening on the ground and join in as we predict the future of what behavioral and mental health looks like in the new digital world in this on-demand webinar presented by the HIMSS New York State Chapter.
Finland: Europe’s Digital Health Epicentre
Some countries, including Finland - the focus of this HIMSS Insights issue - have already developed their national processes to move forward on this front. Recent studies by the Open Data Institute and OECD ranked Finland in top position, suggesting that change is succeeding.
Digital Connected Care: Beyond the Tech – Policy Hurdles for Remote Patient Monitoring
In the U.S., temporary policies, regulations, and coverage changes allowed digital care delivery during the COVID-19 public health emergency. These regulations, policies and coverage, made it clear that digital care delivery is efficacious.
Challenges and Opportunities of Using the National Electronic Health Record from the Perspective of Iranian Nursing Staff
EHRs are being implemented into healthcare systems around the world. In Iran, an integrated national health information system – SIB System (NEHR) was implemented in 2015. This research aimed to study Iranian nurses’ attitudes about challenges and opportunities in the utilization of this syst...