Taking the Call Again: Back as a HIMSS Social Media Ambassador
By Matt Fisher – For the second year in a row, I have been honored by being selected as a Social Media Ambassador for the…
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HIE Rundown 12-02-16
Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
NHIT Week to Celebrate the Contributions of Policy Leaders
Thought leaders from the nation’s most renowned and progressive healthcare organizations will come together during National Health IT Week (Sept. 26-30) to raise awareness.
HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey: Medical Identity Theft Remains Number One Concern
By D’Arcy Gue – Most healthcare cybersecurity stories over the last year or so have focused on ransomware, the frightening new weapon in the hacker arsenal.
Nominate a Health IT Influential Women
The HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards, recognizes influential women at all stages of their career progressions. The Awards celebrate those female visionaries harnessing the power of IT to transform health and healthcare, is unique among power lists and award programs; it’s inclusive of all women of influence, no matter where they may be in the health IT field.
HIMSS 10-Year Analysis: Female Health IT Workers Continue to Earn Less Than Male Peers
Female health information technology (IT) workers in the United States have been consistently paid less over the past 10 years than their male peers, with…
RFI on Assessing Interoperability under MACRA
On April 8, 2016 the ONC issued a Request for Information – Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Medicare Access and CHIP…
HIE Rundown 5-27-16
Here’s what’s happening to make that reality – ZeOmega and McKesson announce strategic partnership to advance payer-provider collaboration; Military Health System improving, expanding information sharing; HIMSS Health Information Exchange community opens the HIE Measures & Enterprise survey
The 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey
As more and more healthcare organizations begin adopting some form of a value-based payment model, the findings of the 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey suggest provider organizations have a sober assessment of their capabilities in facing the challenges ahead.