HIMSS15 Articles

  1. What Advancements In WFI Tech Mean For Health Care 4/13/2020

    WFI Quality Water — or water for injection — is sterilized water that is used in the preparation of some parenteral (typically injected) drugs. WFI in health care needs to be highly sterile to be safe. As a result, special water purification approaches are used to manufacture WFI.

  2. Patient Scheduling Isn't What It Used to Be 3/30/2020

    In the past few weeks, a new era has started in healthcare. The industry was already on a path driven by changing reimbursement models and patient expectations, but the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown things into high gear. It isn’t just about offering convenience for patients or coordinating more follow-ups to meet value-based payment requirements. Now, it is about using tools to provide quality care while reducing the spread of disease and effectively treating infected patients while keeping them home.

  3. Data Breaches: Safeguarding Your Healthcare Organization 11/8/2019

    Breaches are increasing – a proactive approach to data protection can help you safeguard your organization’s data.

  4. Collaboration Between Providers And Vendors Is Key To Combating Healthcare IT Misinformation 11/7/2019

    Our current healthcare environment—with its continuously evolving regulations and billing mandates—can be difficult to navigate. Thus, providers often have more questions than answers when it comes to ensuring they’re remaining compliant—and effective. To further compound the issue, many EMR and health tech companies have capitalized on this widespread confusion by using manipulative tactics and fearmongering to sell those providers technology solutions that they don’t even need.

  5. Data Integrity: Ensuring Your Data Is Trustworthy 11/6/2019

    Healthcare organizations prioritize data confidentiality. Here are some ways to ensure the trustworthiness of your data.

  6. Which New Trends Will Influence Healthcare App Development In 2020? 10/23/2019

    Healthcare organizations are progressively rotating to apps that run on moveable devices to sustain physicians and different caregivers. Such small apps could fill a diversity of roles, from retrieving info in numerous folders to watching patients getting care in the communal. The apps mentioned in the following slides are generally available today, although some are in limited use or still being tested—however, they show a sampling of ways in which apps will get needed information to clinicians and assist them in doing their jobs. In 2019, Healthcare Application Development is by now confusing the mind as there are loads of options and variety. Earlier these apps were seen as a platform allowing real-time therapy between the clinicians and the patients in the absence of hospitals.  Nonetheless in 2017, combination of IoT and AI they saw a great development in the healthcare industry.

  7. Patient-Centric Care By Healthcare Staff: For Better Outcomes 10/2/2019

    In the healthcare industry, the days of business are over. Across the globe, every healthcare system is finding challenges like increasing costs and uneven quality even if the staff is working hard along with skilled clinicians. From the beginning, patient-centric care is what healthcare professionals are approaching to deliver better outcomes.

  8. What Medical Experts Think About Data Analytics For Healthcare? 9/27/2019

    Technological advancements are dramatically shaping the future of the healthcare industry. We can see data permeating every component of its ecosystem. Such changes are transforming the dynamics of the quintessential doctor-patient relationship in various ways.

  9. How Will The Information Blocking Rule Impact Interoperability Gaps? 9/23/2019

    Interoperability gaps are everywhere in healthcare. Presently one of the bigger challenges facing the industry is the ability to send and receive patient records to and from disparate hospitals, health systems and other venues of care. The recent Information Blocking Rule put forth by ONC has been introduced to help motivate provider organizations, IT vendors, and information exchanges to eliminate barriers to the free flow of electronic health information.

  10. Dear Unsatisfied Patient 9/18/2019

    The internet has made things a lot easier—and a lot harder—than they once were for healthcare organizations. Once upon a time, all you had to do was worry about providing great care and your customer loyalty took care of the rest. Have a bad day? An irritable patient? You could rest assured that a negative experience here and there wouldn’t really have a big impact.