Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is dedicated to improving healthcare in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness, interoperability, and care access through the use of health information technology (HIT) and data management systems. HIMSS has played a key role over the past 20 years in the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system from a paper file systems to integrated digital informatics systems. The annual HIMSS conference has grown to become one of the largest healthcare meetings because of the importance of health informatics touching all areas of healthcare.

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Dave Bennett - EVP, Product & Strategy, Orion Health

Dave Bennett, EVP, Product & Strategy at Orion Health shares his thoughts on moving interoperability forward at HIMSS17. Integration must be operationalized and real-time data should be curated to move health care towards becoming a data-driven industry.

March 3, 2017

Siemens Healthineers establishes global Digital Ecosystem to drive digitalization of healthcare

Siemens Healthineers establishes digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services

February 22, 2017

HIMSS CEO announces retirement at end of 2017

H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will be retiring at the end of 2017. 

December 20, 2016

HIMSS eyes 3 main topics to improve homeland security

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released its Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) in September. Now, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has written a letter focusing on three main topics to improve the plan.

November 2, 2016

Multitude of healthcare groups ask Congress for a national patient identifier

Healthcare groups including HIMSS, AMIA and CHIME have written a letter to members of Congress asking for a national patient identifier to increase patient safety and the electronic exchange of data.

October 10, 2016

Why is healthcare the favorite prey of computer hackers?

Date breaches have been dominating the news in recent months. Hackers have stolen patient records then sold them on the black market.

July 1, 2016

Health IT groups want more time to prepare for MACRA

Electronic health record (EHR) vendors and the clinicians they serve need more than a few months to adapt to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, according to numerous comments submitted to CMS by health IT groups.

June 29, 2016

Craig Richardville Named CHIME-HIMSS 2015 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year

Recognizing that healthcare providers need to transition from sick care to well care, Carolinas HealthCare System has been aggressively pursuing a technology strategy that powers more effective patient engagement, virtual care delivery and interoperability amongst providers in the Carolinas.

December 10, 2015
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