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Mentors are found during times of change, some last a career

By Max Stroud 03:45 pm June 04, 2018

Women-only spaces facilitate the kinds of conversations and sharing that can lead to informal mentoring relationships.

A CISO's advice for securing connected medical devices

By Dan Costantino 09:41 am May 16, 2018

Penn Medicine’s Dan Costantino recommends hospitals to get ahead of the issue, understand scope, and implement layers of cybersecurity to start.

Cybersecurity is shared global responsibility, be proactive

By Lee Kim 09:36 am May 07, 2018

Even with fortified defenses, attackers only need an opening while the defender must be constantly on-guard; just one mistake opens the point of entry.

HIMSS Europe aims to empower women as leaders in Healthcare IT

By HIMSS Women in Health IT 09:20 am May 07, 2018

HIMSS is conducting a short survey to determine what challenges women face and what opportunities they have leveraged along their career path.

Veteran IT exec envisions the future of EHRs

By Michael Sperling 09:11 am May 07, 2018

Voice recognition and natural language processing will enable doctors and nurses to interact with electronic health record platforms in more comfortable ways.

Health data access regulatory initiatives hold promise, but rollout still unclear

By David Harlow 10:11 am April 24, 2018

Despite their apparent promise to advance interoperability of clinical and claims data, exactly when the Blue Button 2.0 and MyHealthEData initiatives that CMS unveiled at HIMSS18 will be fully implemented remains unclear.

Changing the game: Machine learning in healthcare

By Paul Black 02:16 pm April 20, 2018

When EHRs can learn – gather and remember – what works best for each user, they can attain maximum efficiency.

CIO reflections: How to use all that EHR data

By Mike Restuccia 08:53 am April 17, 2018

Penn Medicine chief information officer Mike Restuccia shares four tactics for ensuring success with big data projects.

The rise of consumerism

By John Donohue 08:32 am March 16, 2018

Why is now the time they’ll finally join together? Patients expectations are evolving, the tech is now mature enough, and apps are emerging to integrate with legacy clinical systems.