Tag Archives: EHR

Goal Setting for Safe Use of Health IT

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

By Larry Ozeran MD, President, Clinical Informatics Inc. HIMSS is launching a blog series on health IT and patient safety to help providers and hospitals identify potential risks to patient safety that have resulted from problems with EHR implementations and mitigate those … Continue reading →

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Fueling Innovation by Connecting Patients with their Health Data

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

This month, I was delighted to play radio host, moderating a panel of policymakers shaping the future of health IT in America for a feature that aired on Federal News Radio in Washington, DC, and is now available online. The … Continue reading →

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John Kansky, Discusses the Value of Health Information Exchange (IHIE)

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

  John Kansky, Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) John Kansky is Vice President of Strategy and Planning for the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), one of the oldest and largest health information exchanges in the U.S.  Mr. Kansky shares some … Continue reading →

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What Impact Has Informatics Had on your Nursing Career?

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

by Laura J. Wood, DNP, MS, RN, Vice President, National Director – Clinical Solutions, Siemens, Healthcare My professional practice as a pediatric nurse and nursing leader has always focused on patient and family needs, support for front line nurses and … Continue reading →

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I’m a Nurse Informaticist: ‘Oh, what is that?’

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

by Colleen Russell  MSN, RN-BC, Member, HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee, and Regional Clinical Informaticsit, Community Health Systems  Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, they cock their head a little  and say, “So, you’re a nurse, but what … Continue reading →

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News Flash: Informatics is Advancing Technology-enabled Quality Care

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

The Road to Technology-Enabled Quality Care was the title of the HIMSS 2013 Nursing Informatics (NI) Symposium. While working with the planning committee to develop the program it didn’t strike me that the focus of our nursing informatics work had … Continue reading →

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Collaboration Improves Quality Measurement

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

By Zahid Butt, MD, FACG, Chair, HIMSS Quality Measurement Task Force, and CEO, Medisolv, Inc. The ultimate goal of advocates for health IT adoption is to improve the quality of healthcare for patients in all care settings. EHR-enabled quality measurement allows … Continue reading →

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National Quality Forum Quality Data Model (QDM)

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

By Cynthia Barton, QFMQ, Senior Measures Informatics Specialist; Laurel Borowski, Clinical Policy American College of Physicians, Associate; Felicia Owens, Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, Coordinator; Keri Christensen, Performance Improvement, American Medical Association, Project Manager  - HIMSS Quality Measurement Task Force Is … Continue reading →

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The Value of HIT- Improving Quality through Point of Care Alerts

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

As HIMSS13 buzzed with talk about delivering higher quality healthcare in the face of significant cuts in reimbursement by payers and the federal government, Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH) System created a stir with their presentation at “Leading From The Future: The Handshake Between Cost … Continue reading →

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On the Value of Health IT – Taking the Connectathon Road to HIMSS13

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

By Ford Winslow, Chief Information Officer, abnology, Inc. Today, I have the extreme pleasure of finding myself and my company on the leading edge of discussing how to make medical data and health records inter-operate in a meaningful way that can deliver positive … Continue reading →

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