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Healthcare Information And Management Systems Society

HIMSS10: Stimulus wasn't the only story

Editorial | Tuesday, March 09 2010
 

HIMSS: Motorola debuts digital imager

Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
 

HIMSS: Philips unites informatics technologies under IntelliSphere

Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
 

HIMSS: GE IT CEO touts debut of next-gen clinical knowledge platform, eHealth Platform

Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
Written by Mary Tierney
 

HIMSS Keynote: Mobile devices, IT will cause true reformation in U.S. healthcare

Conference News | Monday, March 01 2010
Written by Jeff Byers
 

HIMSS: IT shouldn't drive enterprise imaging solution decisions

Conference News | Monday, March 01 2010
Written by Gina Narcisi
 

Washington looking at safety risks associated with HIT

Top Stories | Tuesday, March 02 2010
 

HIMSS Survey: Meaningful use to spur heath IT spending in 2010

Conference News | Sunday, February 28 2010
 

CHIME/HIMSS: Generational gaps make stable health IT workforce a 'fantasy'

Conference News | Sunday, February 28 2010
Written by Gina Narcisi
 

CHIME/HIMSS: Privacy concerns take center stage at meaningful use panel

Conference News | Sunday, February 28 2010
Written by Justine Cadet
 

HIMSS: Project management teams that maximize benefits together

Conference News | Sunday, February 28 2010
Written by Jeff Byers
 

Interoperability: Putting the Word into Action

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

The Healthstory Project: Harmony with Clinical Narrative/Structured Data in the EHR

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Semantic Interoperability: Creating a Common Language to Transform Care

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Interoperability in the Perioperative Environment

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Healthcare Interoperability: Achieving Meaningful Use and Beyond!

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Interoperability and the Meaningful Use Exchange

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

An International Consortium Exemplar: A Common Practice Framework for Standardizing and Advancing In

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Integrated Medical Home Leverages PHR and E-Connectivity to Transform Care

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

The Role of Standards-Based Solutions in Driving Deployment of Connected Health Information Communit

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 


HIMSS 360° COVERAGE

Web Exclusives

AHRQ: Health IT could be disruptive while reducing rehospitalization rates, costs

 The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Health IT Standards Committee: Clinical Operations group seeks specificity in standards

 During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.

Q&A: Maine HIE works through a variety of challenges

 The state of Maine currently has the largest operating statewide exchange in the country in relation to population. Although Devore Culver, Executive Director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet, expects that distinction to change in the months ahead, the state’s HIE is entering the final months of its demonstration phase, and is slated to move in to its full statewide implementation in the second half of 2010. Culver, who is former CIO of Eastern Maine Health Care, recently spoke with CMIO about the progress HealthInfoNet has made.   

Webinar: How-to guide for e-medical device reporting to the FDA

 In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.

New patient monitoring model draws scrutiny

 A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.

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