Addressing Prior Authorization with Blockchain, the First Step in Revenue Cycle Transformation
Our guest writer shares how focusing on one function within revenue cycle management, prior authorization, can give insight into potential solutions for streamlining the healthcare system.
Healthcare Industry Innovators Embracing Healthy Disruption
Whether it’s building better dashboards or uplifting underrepresented individuals in healthcare, there is still so much to be done in innovating for improvement in the healthcare industry. Thanks to the courage of these industry trailblazers, a better future for health is closer.
Developing an Opioid Abuse Program: Three Guidelines from Model Practices
Using our Davies Award recipients as case studies, we've identified three critical areas health systems should consider when building a comprehensive opioid abuse program.
Social Determinants of Health: Breaking Down the Barriers
Did you know that social determinants of health can affect up to 70% of health outcomes? Building a healthier future means addressing the existence of health disparities.
Removing Patient Transport Barriers with Innovative Partnerships
A look into how a health system developed a patient transport program to improve health outcomes by partnering with other organizations.
Genomic Data and Blockchain: A New Paradigm for Precision Medicine and Science
While there is still a long way to go before we have the ability to understand how individuals and their genomes interact to cause disease – and therefore use that genomic data to improve health – there is progress, shares our guest blogger.
Developing Application Software for Detecting and Documenting Diabetic Foot Complications for Use by Nurses
With the increasing number of diabetes cases worldwide, developing application software that detects diabetic foot complications can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of nursing care services, especially in Indonesia.
Exploration of Nurses’ Experience with Using Electronic Documentation Systems in Home Care
Ibrahim, S., Donelle, L., Regan, S., Sidani, S. (Summer 2019). Exploration of Nurses’ experience with using Electronic Documentation Systems in Home Care. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 23(2).
Demonstrating the Value of Nursing Care Through Use of a Unique Nurse Identifier
As healthcare transitions to a value-based reimbursement model, nursing documentation in EHRs and other health IT systems will increasingly be used to demonstrate nursing’s contribution to that value.
Putting the ‘N’ in STEM: A Call for Nurse Data Scientists
Carroll, W. (Summer, 2019). Putting the ‘N’ in STEM: A call for nurse data scientists. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 23(2). Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni
Mitigating Barriers to Interoperability in Health Care
Powell, K. & Alexander, G. (Summer, 2019). Mitigating Barriers to Interoperability in Health Care. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 23(2). Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni
Uses and Advantages of eLearning and Distance Pedagogy in Nursing Informatics Education
Georgsson, M. (Summer, 2019). Uses and advantages of eLearning and distance pedagogy in nursing informatics education. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 23(2). Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni