The Power of the PDMP for Clinical Decision-Making
While the U.S.’s implementation of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) for opioid tracking should be a valuable asset for clinicians, our guest writer shares that PDMP data is often underutilized when it comes to clinical decision-making and how we can work to change that.
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Heart Failure Readmission Prevention Case Study
This HIMSS Davies Award case study focuses on one health system’s work to improve care for heart failure patients.
Decreased Length of Stay for C-section Case Study
This HIMSS Davies Award case study focuses on decreasing variability in care to improve the standard of care for patients undergoing a C-section.
Sepsis Patient Case Study
This HIMSS Davies Award case study focuses on improving the percentage of mortality and length of stay of sepsis patient cases.
Using Current Challenges to Drive Healthcare’s Future
We asked HIMSS Global Health Conference collaborators for their thoughts on healthcare challenges today. Here’s what they had to say.
State of Healthcare Report: Uncovering Healthcare Barriers and Opportunities
In this State of Healthcare Report, HIMSS and its Trust partners—Accenture, The Chartis Group and ZS—uncover healthcare barriers and offer key takeaways on current trends, opportunities and insights to drive real progress.
Moving Toward Health Equity with Innovation and Collaboration
We asked healthcare leaders to weigh in on the work to achieve health equity and how innovative and collaborative solutions can help us get closer to realizing the full health potential of every human, everywhere.
Advancing Healthcare with Insights from Four Key Perspectives Infographic
Healthcare leaders can benefit from strategic planning in digital health, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and financial health. Here’s a rundown of some of the key findings in the State of Healthcare Report.
Data Quality Improvement Success Story: Collaborating through the Immunization Integration Program On Demand Webinar
Listen to the Interoperability & HIE Community on-demand roundtable discuss the Immunization Integration Program (IIP) which recognized the challenges and opportunities to immunization interoperability and information sharing.
Inclusive Design in Healthcare Means Developing Empathy and Understanding
Inclusive design in healthcare for those with disabilities means developing empathy and involving users in the process.
Aggregate Immunization Acknowledgment Message Reports Guidance White Paper
To prepare vaccination provider organizations to handle ACK message data, an IIP work group developed this guidance document to improve visibility and access to information from acknowledgment messages.
Improving Immunization Data Quality
Providers may know the immunization rates for their patients, but they may not know how many immunization records actually make it to the IIS. What you should know that you might not.