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Smarter care: Focusing on consumer engagement for better health outcomes

By Zane Burke 12:00 pm March 02, 2018

Actionable insights and intelligent health care experiences lead to personalized care and improved operations for providers.

How technology can help in the fight against opioids

By Paul Black 12:22 pm February 28, 2018

Health IT is critical to deliver the right data to the right place at the right time and empower clinicians and pharmacists to make informed decisions.

HIMSS18 Social Media Ambassadors kickoff patient power tech challenge

By Lygeia Ricciardi 10:15 am February 28, 2018

The contest, spearheaded by Lygeia Ricciardi and Chuck Webster, is intended to highlight promising ways to empower patients through information and technology.

Penn Medicine CISO: 3 Strategies every security team should have

By Dan Costantino 09:08 am February 19, 2018

After all the cybersecurity threats and events in the last 12 months, infosec teams should focus on these priorities as the craft strategies into the future.

Students team up to define the future of transformative care today

By Tom Leary 07:46 am February 09, 2018

The inaugural HIMSS Student Case Competition gave interdisciplinary student teams a hands-on experience navigating HIMSS-supplied case studies.

Why Apple Health Records in iPhones could be a big deal - and why it might not be

By Bill Russell 04:11 pm January 26, 2018

Integration into a clinical workflow is only way to provide value and this app doesn’t offer that yet but many are hopeful Apple can do it.

Looking to 2018: How the newest innovations are reliant on a tried-and-true standard

By Russell Leftwich, MD 03:44 pm January 19, 2018

While last year was focused on capturing useful data, now we need to draw insights from that data across the entire care continuum.

Penn Medicine CIO's 5 predictions for 2018

By Mike Restuccia 10:13 am January 19, 2018

Chief information officer Mike Restuccia revisits past predictions and builds on recent developments on what's ahead for the new year.

Meet the 2018 Most Influential Women in Health IT Awardees

By Carla Smith 12:23 pm January 16, 2018

These award recipients represent the highest standards of leadership and are respected and recognized as role models to peers in the field.These award recipients represent the highest standards of leadership and is respected and recognized as a role model to peers in the field.

What you need to know about the Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities

By Lee Kim 11:18 am January 05, 2018

Affected systems include Windows, Linux, Android, Chrome, iOS and MacOS but the good news is there is a public exploit code to test your system for vulnerabilities.