HIMSS news and information

I was encouraged to see you call out “exchange of information” as a key takeaway from this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference (“Opening...
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With the Oct. 1, 2014 deadline for the transition to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedures codes apparently set in stone, technology experts like Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, forecast how the change will unfold.
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In little more than 18 months, the U.S. healthcare industry is expected to join most of the industrialized world in the adoption of the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision code system, which promises to be the biggest single-day switch in healthcare information technology since...
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Modern Healthcare asks industry leaders such as Dr. William Bria, Dr. Farzad Mostashari and Dr. Eric Topol to identify the next big healthcare apps.
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Mobile healthcare apps are multiplying fast and putting a vast array of new tools in the hands of patients and the providers who deliver their care. The pace and scope of innovation makes it hard to imagine what app developers will create next. So we put the question to some of the thinkers in the...
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Though the U.S. has already spent more than half the $22.5 billion earmarked for computerizing medical records, there has been achingly slow progress in creating an accessible, interoperable system that works for patients.
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Now that many office-based physicians and a majority of hospitals have used electronic health-records systems for a year or longer, the federal government will work on nudging providers to get better at sharing the contents.
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari, speaking at HIMSS, pushed back against bad press about the federal programs to help providers buy and meaningfully use electronic health-record systems.
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While they spoke to a much smaller crowd than former President Bill Clinton did the day before, political strategists James Carville and Karl Rove closed out the HIMSS annual conference and exhibition in lively fashion, and may have engaged the audience more than the former president did—even...
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Paul Barr, reporter for Modern Healthcare, runs through highlights of the last day of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, which included a keynote by Dr. Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health information technology at HHS.
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