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In the decade-and-a-half since the startling “To Err is Human” report, it’s still hard to discern whether billions invested in electronic medical records are improving patient safety.

Tom Leary highlights milestones made during the annual event and looks at this year’s NHITWeek points of engagement.

When its EHR vendor wasn’t going to be ready until 2020, the IT team took matters into its own hands in a low-budget open source project that is already paying off.

Now more than ever, networking is key to getting ahead.

Public health advocate and recipient of the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, Jessican Kahn, shares stories from her career and the impact health IT can have on population health.

Penn Medicine’s Mike Restuccia explains why instituting an end user survey is such an important, and eye-opening, step to take.

What patients want from telemedicine tools are care quality and user experience.

Women-only spaces facilitate the kinds of conversations and sharing that can lead to informal mentoring relationships. 

Penn Medicine’s Dan Costantino recommends hospitals to get ahead of the issue, understand scope, and implement layers of cybersecurity to start.

Even with fortified defenses, attackers only need an opening while the defender must be constantly on-guard; just one mistake opens the point of entry.