LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare announced today the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has selected the company’s Centricity Practice Solution as the official electronic medical record (EMR) to be used by the medical teams of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This marks the first time that all athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games will have their health interactions managed by an electronic medical record. The announcement was made at the 2016 Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas.

Less than one-fifth (18 percent) of doctors believe patients should have full access to their EHRs, a decrease from 31 percent in 2014, according to the Accenture 2016 Consumer Survey on Patient Engagement.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that companies that provide 90 percent of electronic health records used by hospitals nationwide as well as the top five largest private healthcare systems in the country have agreed to implement three core commitments.

How are attackers able to steal so much information? What can stop them? Stephen Cobb, CISSP, senior security researcher for ESET, discussed the security of medical data at the HIMSS Annual Conference today in Las Vegas.  

HIMSS will recognize seven health IT vendors for developing ConCert by HIMSS™ certified products.

With hundreds of vendors showcasing their products and solutions in the exhibit hall, there's much to see and learn. Here's the latest to know about EHR giant Cerner, as company president Zane Burke answered three questions for Clinical Innovation + Technology.

Visitors to the Allscripts booth at HIMSS16 will have a lot to take in. The EHR vendor will showcase its efforts to adapt to the changing healthcare landscape, addressing all the most buzzworthy topics.

HIMSS has announced its inaugural Annual Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards, an awards program recognizing influential women at all stages of their career progressions.