Healthcare IT News

HIMSS Book Authors Jan Oldenburg and Mary Griskewicz talk about Activate, a new companion book to Jan Olderburg's 2013 HIMSS Book, Engage! Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement.

HIMSS15 Social Media Ambassador Chuck Webster, MD, talks about emerging work flow technologies at the HIMSS Annual Conference.

HIMSS15 Social Media Ambassador Susan Hull, RN, MSN, comments on the advancement of the Blue Button initiative across the industry and the FHIR standards for interoperability.

HIMSS15 Social Media Ambassador David Williams remarks on the impact of smartphones in healthcare.

Ken Ong, MD, MPH, discusses his book, Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer.

John R. Zaleski, PhD, CPHIMS, discusses his book, Connected Medical Devices: Integrating Patient Care Data in Healthcare Systems, a new title available in the HIMSS Bookstore.

Robert Mittendorff, MD, HX360 keynote speaker at HIMSS15, talks key themes of healthcare in 2015, including care coordination, digital therapeutics and telemedicine.

Healthcare IT News recognized the industry’s most significant contributors at the 6th Annual H.I.T. Men & Women Awards Ceremony at HIMSS15. The event attracted the industry’s most prestigious leaders to celebrate the accomplishments of their peers.

(SPONSORED) Jason Carmichael, CEO of Galen Healthcare Solutions, explains how Galen helps increase interoperability, leverage Big Data, and supports a platform that predicts the cost of an episode of care while helping design coordinated care plans.

(SPONSORED) Drew Schiller, CTO and co-founder of Validic, discusses how Validic drives provider-patient connectivity by streamlining and normalizing digital health data delivery from disparate personal health apps and at-home devices into the health system.