Throwback Thursday: Revisiting the U.S. Naval Hospital of Philadelphia...
This 352,000-square-foot, 650-bed facility was the first high-rise hospital building constructed by the U.S. Navy, and considered state-of-the-art at its 1935 opening.
View ArticleService Line Optimization
Improve your cost per case by effectively managing unwarranted variation in three key areas
View ArticleBreaking Down the Myth that Culture is Shapeless and Immeasurable
During the closing keynote at the NPSF Congress, culture expert Allan Frankel, M.D., lays out the distinct components of a winning organization.
View ArticleThe Three Challenges Impacting Health Care's New Normal
Risk-based contracts, achieving proper scale and regulatory pressure add to the stress of transforming hospital and health system operations.
View ArticleFor Safety Net Providers, 340B Drug Pricing Program is 'Mission Critical'
Hospitals must prepare themselves for more HRSA audits and learn to share the stories of patients who benefit.
View ArticleUmbdenstock: Thanks for Being So Stubborn
With retirement around the corner, the AHA CEO says he's proud of hospitals. Here's why.
View ArticleFinding Talent to Lead Hospitals is Becoming More Difficult
Reality is constantly shifting in health care and so are the skills and backgrounds of tomorrow's hospital management. What are the skills that executives and boards should be targeting, and where can...
View ArticleHIMSS Preview: Health Care Provider Attendance Jumps
Stephen Lieber, president of HIMSS, reveals some surprising news regarding attendance at this year's conference and offers the lowdown on the state of interoperability, in a video interview.
View ArticleBurwell, Dell Likely to Draw Interest as Keynoters at HIMSS
LAS VEGAS — The 2016 HIMSS Conference & Exposition starts out with a double-threat of keynoters Monday evening, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, and Dell founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell.
View ArticlePatient Identification, Data Security as Important as Ever: Marc Probst
Marc Probst, the chairman of CHIME and Intermountain's CIO, makes a case for more cooperation among providers in the name of better data security.
View ArticleAt HIMSS Day 1, Big-name IT Vendors, Hospital Systems Commit to Finally Make...
Burwell drops announcement of cross-industry information-sharing pact during opening keynote at nation's biggest health care technology conference.
View ArticleVideo: John Halamka Gives the Current State of Health Care IT a B-minus
John Halamka, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, gave the health information technology effort a "B-," in a talk at the AMDIS/HIMSS Physicians' IT Symposium. Part of...
View ArticleHealth and Human Services Announces New Rule, Targeting Those Who Block the...
DeSalvo, Slavitt say during HIMSS16 session that they expect little of their work to change with new presidential administration in 2017.
View ArticleVideo: How to Prepare for Hospital Quality Reporting Convergence
With federal quality reporting requirements converging, there are things health systems can do to prepare, says Deborah Gash, vice president and chief information officer for St. Luke's Health System,...
View Article'Startling' HIMSS Survey Finds Women in Health IT Take 15 Years to Catch Up...
Two female hospital chief information officers offer advice to others aspiring to enter IT exec ranks during frank discussion at HIMSS16 Wednesday.
View ArticleLessons From Retail for Mobile Engagement
Despite the growing use of health apps, health care providers have yet to fully realize the power of mobile devices for patient engagement, say speakers at HIMSS 2016.
View ArticleVideo: Integrating Clinical Guidelines into Workflow: A Complicated Process
In an interview at HIMSS, we discover howTexas Children's Hospital leaders took a systematic approach to integrating evidence-based guidelines into care.
View ArticleEHR Vendor Compliance, Cybersecurity Major Thrusts of HIMSS 2016
The HIMSS Conference & Exposition is so big you can’t help but feel like you barely scratched the surface. This year’s was no different, with almost 42,000 attendees, but let’s review some of the...
View ArticleWhat Retiring NFL Great Peyton Manning Had to Say to Health Care Pros at HIMSS
Hospitals & Health Networks Senior Writer Marty Stempniak recaps the closing keynote from the nation's biggest health IT conference.
View ArticleDignity Health Reduces Sepsis Rates with Bio-surveillance
Joseph Colorafi, M.D., vice president and chief medical information officer, describes how Dignity Health uses bio-surveillance and the "new knowledge" that technology brings to reduce sepsis rates at...
View ArticleVideo: Using an Existing Technology to Improve Interoperability
David Kibbe, M.D., president and CEO of DirectTrust, describes how the hospital member organization uses direct messaging technology to facilitate the sharing of information about patients.
View ArticleVideo: The Time is Now for Interoperability of Electronic Health Records
Jitin Asnaani, executive director of CommonWell Health Alliance says there are no good reasons to hold back any longer from allowing EHRs to be moved freely among a patient's providers.
View ArticleHacker Shows and Tells Health Care CIOs Why Security is Important
Famous former hacker Kevin Mitnick gives a thought-provoking demonstration at the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum in Orlando.
View ArticleThe Era of Thinking Computers Is Here, Says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
Artificial intelligence has reached a point at which it can fundamentally change health care, says the HIMSS keynoter.
View ArticleVideo: CIOs Tackle Diversity, Ponder the Future at HIMSS
Liz Johnson, R.N., CHIME chair and Tenet's acute care hospital CIO, outlines why diversity is important to health care.
View ArticleHow One Hospital Combined Culture and Technology to Improve Care
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital has utilized technology into its workflow to improve quality of care, in an interview from HIMSS with Sajid Ahmed, CIO.
View Article'Shark Tank' Stars: Investors are Waiting to Spill Millions Into Health Care
Reality show personalities say the field has vast opportunities to improve and bring returns to venture capital during a keynote at the HIMSS conference.
View ArticleVideo: The Mayo Clinic Approach to Managing an EHR System
Health IT challenges are significant, but solvable, says Cris Ross, Mayo CIO.
View ArticleJFK Health System's Structured Approach to Mobile Tech
The N.J. organization seeks to take advantage of tools that have remained largely untapped.
View ArticleVideo: How Health IT Can Aid in Patient Safety Efforts
Patricia Sengstack, R.N., CNIO at Bon Secours Health System in Marriottsville, Md., discusses how health IT tools can help health systems realize their patient safety goals.
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