Redesigning Care Models for the Future of Population Health
The HIMSS Physician Committee asked a handful of healthcare leaders questions about the future of population health.
What is Long Term Post-Acute Care?
The LTPAC Sector is so much more than what some of us might have thought in the past. And yes, it is time for all of us to work together because we all have someone that is receiving care in this sector.
Creation of a Novel Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator to Improve End-of-Life Care for Children with Serious Illness
An interdisciplinary group of three nurses and two physicians with quality and information technology experience developed the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary pediatric palliative navigator to help tailor pediatric needs, drive development of benchmarks in our field, and ensure gold sta...
Recognizing Pediatric Elevated Blood Pressure using an EPIC Best Practice Alert
Texas Children’s Pediatrics (TCP), the largest primary care pediatric group practice in the USA, formulated a multipart intervention to improve hiBP recognition in January 2019.
Implementation of Real-time COVID-19 Vaccines Tracking with Integrated Medication Management Technology
This HIMSS Davies Award case study explores Texas Children’s COVID vaccine process and workflows.
Advancing Digital Transformation in the Community Sector
The majority of the world’s citizens receive healthcare services in their communities. During the height of the pandemic, there was a surge in out-of-hospital care with the burden of the patient management typically falling on primary care providers; many governments enacted temporary flexible...
Improving Immunization Workflow for Providers – Bulk Query Functionality
Is there a way to efficiently query immunization information systems (IIS) and receive this information to make accurate clinical decisions?
Improving Access to Quality Care with Smart Telemedicine Program
Healthcare can be difficult to access in Kenya. The majority of the population live in rural areas and are affected by a lack of medical professionals.
Clinical Risk Groups: Turning Data into Insight to Improve Patient Readmission Rates
In addition to handling the daily demands of healthcare, organisations are faced with a major reoccurring challenge: patient readmissions.
Nurses Month Industry Perspectives: Nurse Informaticists Make a Difference
To impact digital health, nursing informaticists are leveraging healthcare technology innovations across all spectrums of healthcare, including the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI).
From Good to Great: The Benefits of Continued Upskilling in Healthcare
As the healthcare industry evolves at the speed it has over the past couple of years, upskilling has become essential to staying competitive.
Nursing Impact on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Part 1
According to the report, growing evidence supports an association between inequities in both health and access to healthcare, and social determinants of health (SDOH).