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Category: HIMSS
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Community Releases Document Sharing Metadata Handbook
The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) community has published a new Document Sharing Metadata Handbook to guide organizations in best practice management of metadata for healthcare document sharing.
Cityblock Health CEO to Keynote at Connected Health Conference: How Zip Codes Can Better Predict Health Outcomes
HIMSS innovation company Personal Connected Health Alliance recently announced that Iyah Romm, co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, will join the 2018 Connected Health Conference keynote speaker lineup.
HIMSS Responds to CMS Physician Self-Referral Law Request for Information
On August 24, 2018, HIMSS submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in a letter its feedback on CMS’ Request for Information Regarding the Physician Self-Referral Law.
ONC Forum Addresses Transforming Patient Care through Interoperability
The recent ONC Interoperability Forum brought people together from ONC, its federal partners, the healthcare industry and the technology sector to learn about recent efforts to advance interoperability nationwide and identify concrete actions in respon…
HIMSS Executive Vice President Named Health Innovators Fellow at The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship program recently announced its fourth class of Health Innovators Fellows, including Indu Subaiya, executive vice president at HIMSS.
CMS Proposes Fundamental Changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization Program
On August 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a proposed rule focused on revamping the Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization Program.
Advancing the Transformation of Healthcare on Capitol Hill
Prior to adjourning for the August recess, albeit an abbreviated break for the Senate, Congress was successful in accomplishing several key HIMSS policy priorities.
Leveraging Information and Technology to Mitigate the Opioid Epidemic at the Federal and State Levels
Every day, 115 Americans die from an opioid-related drug overdose. To encourage awareness about the public health epidemic, HIMSS is hosting a series of webinars on leveraging health information and technology to mitigate the opioid crisis at the feder…
Social Robotics Pioneer Confirmed to Keynote at Connected Health Conference 2018
Cynthia Breazeal, MS, ScD, a pioneer of social robotics and human robot interaction, is confirmed to take the stage as a main keynote speaker during the Connected Health Conference 2018.
