Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

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HIMSS18: 3 trends to improve interoperability

Thousands of professionals are touching down in Las Vegas for the 2018 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. To help prep visitors, Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications for Great Lakes Health Connect, discusses three trends in interoperability on the HIMSS website. 

Timicoin To Report at HIMSS Conference March 5-9 How Its Blockchain Technology Is Like a Brigade of Green Beret Protecting Medical Records From Ransomware Attacks

The Co-Founder and Managing Director of Timicoin (www.Timicoin.io), to report how his blockchain technology can be ransomware's worst enemy if it ever attempts to attack medical records.

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The hot topics of HIMSS18: AI, Amazon and analytics

Tens of thousands of healthcare professionals will be heading to the 2018 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas in a few days. Last year’s conference was dominated by talk about the promise of artificial intelligence and what Congress was going to do with the Affordable Care Act—so what will health IT leaders be talking about this time around?

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HIMSS18: 5 questions with CHIME-HIMSS CIO of the Year Randy McCleese

Randy McCleese, MSIS, MBA, the chief information officer at Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky, was selected as the 2017 CIO of the Year by College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), with the groups specifically citing his IT advocacy on behalf of smaller, rural providers.

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Blockchain named most overhyped IT trend by CIOs

While applications of blockchain technology for healthcare have become a hot topic among health IT professionals, especially at conferences, a survey of chief information officers (CIOs) said they believe it’s the most overhyped trend in the field in terms of making an impact within the next two years.

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Randy McCleese named CHIME-HIMSS CIO of the Year

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) have chosen Randy McCleese, MSIS, MBA, former CHIME board chair and chief information officer at Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Ky., as the recipient of the 2017 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award.

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Part 2, Q&A with next HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf: Health IT industry shouldn’t fear AI

Embracing artificial intelligence (AI) technology is “a necessity” for the health IT industry, according to Harold “Hal” Wolf III, the next president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

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Q&A with next HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf: 'Absolute gap' between IT vendors, providers

It’s been quite a long time since anyone except Stephen Lieber was been president and CEO of The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), but he’ll soon be handing over the reins after 17 years to Harold “Hal” Wolf III, an alum of Kaiser Permanente and the Chartis Group as well as a HIMSS board member.

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