Quest for integration dominates annual HIMSS event
March 08, 2006
One of the healthcare industry’s most innovative meetings took place in San Diego in February: the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual meeting and exhibition. This year’s HIMSS meeting attracted 25,740 attendees, including staff for 895 exhibitors. More healthcare chief information, technology, and operations officers as well as senior IT managers assemble at this conference than any other gathering in the world.

Report from HIMSS: Palm vein ID shows promise
February 16, 2006
Attendees at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting had four days to experience a Regional Health Information Organization in action at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Interoperability Showcase. By improving the state of system integration, the IHE aims to make information readily available wherever it is needed and to remove barriers to optimal patient care.

Report from HIMSS: Experts ditch paper for automated digital consent
February 15, 2006
Improving informed consent is a $4.3 billion challenge that could be met if more facilities used their digital systems to automate the process, a pair of presenters said Tuesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting in San Diego.

News from HIMSS: Largest integrated network takes IT to the next level
February 15, 2006
An insider’s view of the world’s largest integrated delivery network can be had for the price of admission this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting in San Diego. The Department of Defense exhibit at HIMSS showcases the healthcare IT programs that consolidate and manage an IDN comprising 70 hospitals, 800 clinics, 60,000 medical professionals, and more than nine million patients.

National health IT coordinator pushes industry to tackle medical errors
February 17, 2005
Health information technology is not just about wired physicians or better treatment for patients, said Dr. David Brailer, the first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, at the HIMSS meeting's closing session. It's about treating the healthcare industry itself.

Pathology PACS helps eliminate human error and boost productivity
February 16, 2005
In this era of robust information technology, systems should be improved to address the problems of human error in healthcare delivery, according to a participant in an e-session at the HIMSS meeting Wednesday. At the same time, solutions must be found for the critical problems of productivity in hospitals.

Technology trends blur distinctions between techies and engineers
February 16, 2005
The push toward patient safety and technology effectiveness has begun to loosen the traditional boundaries between the worlds of information technology and clinical engineering.

Brailer turns up heat on product certification
February 16, 2005
Certification of information technology products moved to the front burner last year, with the formation of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) dedicated to establishing a product certification process.

Collaborative initiative shares the health
February 15, 2005
Today's technology makes it possible for increasingly large networks to share medical information, and HIMSS attendees received an inside look at one Tuesday: a regional collaborative initiative operated by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. The initiative promotes the interorganizational exchange of healthcare data using information technology, standards, and administrative simplification. The role of the collaborative is to deliver the goal in seven to 10 years.

Hype cycle separates IT trends from glimmers
February 15, 2005
Hype took center stage in an education session at the HIMSS meeting, "Hype aside, what's really happening in U.S. healthcare IT?"

Military pushes for patient-centric structured-data EMR
February 15, 2005
In an update to its Composite HealthCare System patient record, the Department of Defense Military Health System has moved away from an institution-centered electronic medical record and toward a more centralized model that focuses on the patient.

Cisco CEO challenges healthcare to change
February 15, 2005
If healthcare is willing to change its process and organization, the future can be exciting, Cisco president and CEO John Chambers told a keynote audience at the HIMSS meeting Tuesday morning.

Regional rollout focuses decision making improvements at point of care
February 15, 2005
Regional health information organizations are popping up across the country in response to the "Framework for strategic action," published by Dr. David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services.

EMR automates resident training
February 15, 2005
The electronic medical record provides an automated way to deal with the added complexity evaluators face as they attempt to measure not only what today's medical residents know, but also how well they perform using that knowledge.

Dashboard quantifies PACS success
February 14, 2005
The success of PACS is not in dispute. One-half of all U.S. hospitals in the HIMSS database either have PACS installed or are in the process of implementation.

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