Social Determinants of Health
Discover more about the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age—and their broad impact on health, health equity and overall well-being in this guide.
Digital Health Transformation - Overview
Better systems save lives. Digital health transformation will help you deliver personalized care at scale, give the right people the right data and pull clinicians back from burnout. When you’re ready to make your technology work for you, we’re right here.
Maturity Models
Progress is a process. Our eight-stage maturity models support every part of your digital health transformation—whether we’re talking analytics, EMRs, infrastructure or supply chains. With expert guidance and strategy, you’ll deliver the care you’ve always dreamed of.
Digital Health Indicator
Progress is a process. Our Digital Health Indicator measures how you’re doing across the four dimensions of digital health, and prepares you to transform your care. You’ll have a bird’s eye view of your systems and workflows, plus the buy-in you need to lead real change.
Digital Health Transformation - DHTPP
HIMSS Certified Organizations engage with health systems across the globe to help you drive digital health transformation.
HIMSS Population Health Management and Capabilities Model
Interact with a new HIMSS population health management model that identifies population health domains and capabilities, and maps nearly 500 functions to Value-Based Care (VBC) payment models to help bring clarity to your population health efforts.
The Importance of Good Governance
Our guest writer shares while often overlooked, governance in a healthcare organization's information and technology can lead to a higher level of trust by patients.
Medication Process Compliance in Pediatric Inpatients – Time to the First
For most medical conditions, reducing the time between intent to treat and actual treatment is beneficial. The goal of this study was to determine the current state of the medication process at a university-affiliated children’s hospital. [Haresh L. Bhatia, Neal R. Patel, Catherine H. Ivory, Ph...
Capturing and Evaluating Process Semantics from Front-Line Nurses: A Pilot Study
Tacit clinical knowledge acquired by front-line nurses over many years of practice is notoriously difficult to capture and codify. This study aims to enable front-line nurses to capture their own process domain semantics and constructs ontologies from the semantics and rank semantic similiarity....
Inspire, Innovate, Influence: This Is How Nurses Lead
Our guest writer shares how every nurse can inspire, innovate and influence no matter their position.
Successful Implementation of Electronic Trauma Documentation in a Level III Trauma Center- It Can Be Done!
Burnie, J., Heist, C., Hardin, E., Donoghue, K., Dunigan, K., & Sheets, K. (July, 2018). Successful Implementation of Electronic Trauma Documentation in a Level III Trauma Center- It Can Be Done! Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 22(2)
Tackling the Opioid Epidemic with Information & Innovation
The opioid epidemic didn’t start with just one cause, which means only a multi-faceted approach will work in combating it.