NEW ORLEANS—Many healthcare stakeholders will have to coordinate their efforts to achieve the goals of current quality reporting and interoperability eHealth initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), according to a presentation from a panel of CMS representatives at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—A two-year Lean implementation has transformed a 465-bed hospital from an inconsistent performer to a consistent achiever that realized in $1.8 million in net savings in 2012, according to a March 5 presentation at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

The recently unveiled Cisco Global Customer Experience Report shed some light on both consumer and healthcare decision makers’ (HCDMs) views on health IT and the patient experience. 

NEW ORLEANS—The proliferation of mobile devices and the dawn of genomic sequencing will allow digital medicine to migrate into democratized medicine, or what Eric J. Topol, MD, called a Medical Gutenberg era, during his March 5 keynote lecture at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—IT project management is an art and science, and careful attention to proven strategies can lay a solid foundation for success, according to an e-session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

Privacy and security top health IT and health information exchange (HIE) challenges to address this year, according to results of a recent National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) stakeholder survey. 

As health IT systems continue to transform, providers should manage data like an asset through a framework of information governance, Lydia Washington, MS, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) senior director of HIM Practice Excellence, and AHIMA member Sandra Nunn, MA, RHIA, CHIP, announced during a March 6 session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS—With ICD-10, Meaningful Use and all the developments in mobile health and analytics, CIOs and others working in health IT have a lot on their plate this year as the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference gets underway.