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The Steve Lieber Innovator Scholarship, sponsored by the HIMSS Foundation, recognizes the leadership and passion for innovation in digital health technology of its namesake, HIMSS president and CEO for more than 17 years.
August 01, 2017 The need for improved efficiency in healthcare and the new requirements of U.S. healthcare reform have rapidly made the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting into one of the largest medical conferences in the world. The major themes this year included how to leverage technology to implement population health initiatives, analytics software, patient engagement, improving connectivity and data/image sharing between disparate IT systems and outside physicians, and how to improve workflow efficiency
June 01, 2016 There were many examples of clinical decision support (CDS) software currently on the market that could be leveraged to address Stage 3 Meaningful Use on the expo floor of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2016. During HIMSS, Ascendian Healthcare Consulting CEO Shawn McKenzie sat down with itnTV and discussed how and why CDS should be integrated into the radiology workflow.
April 29, 2016 The ITN team has just returned from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS16) annual conference in Las Vegas, where more than 40,000 healthcare IT professionals gathered to learn about and share information on optimizing healthcare outcomes using information technology.
April 05, 2016 
As the healthcare industry evolves from a volume- to a value-based payment system, clinical information technology (IT) executives are expected to play an increasingly significant role in ensuring health IT is appropriately leveraged to positively impact care outcomes. Evidence from the 2016 HIMSS Leadership Survey, released at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition in Las Vegas, clearly support these expectations.
March 14, 2016 
The 2016 HIMSS Connected Health Survey paints an optimistic picture surrounding the emerging trend of connectivity within the healthcare ecosystem. With more than 50 percent of respondents indicating their hospital currently uses three or more connected health technologies, the high adoption rates (and other supportive statistics in the report) underscore the growing importance these technologies play in the hospital setting.
March 14, 2016 A new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) offers insight from nearly 200 healthcare executives (C-Suite, administrators, directors and vice presidents) on their population health initiatives, and their current and future approach to population health IT solutions and consultants.
January 05, 2016 
Cybersecurity was identified as an increased business priority over the past year according to 87 percent of respondents in the newly released 2015 HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Cybersecurity Survey. Two-thirds of those surveyed also indicated that their organizations had experienced a significant security incident recently. Released at the Privacy and Security Forum, held in Chicago from June 30-July 1, this research reflects the continued cybersecurity concerns by healthcare providers regarding the protection of their organizations’ data assets.
June 30, 2015 
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gathered public comments on its Stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU) requirements through May 30. The third and final set of MU rules are a core part of the plan to reform American healthcare by leveraging health information technology (IT) to help reduce costs, eliminate redundancies and convert from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-performance reimbursement system.
June 04, 2015