Stakeholders, lawmakers push healthcare IT advancement at HIMSS forum

“Experts, lawmakers, public officials and other stakeholders gathered at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s public policy forum this week to promote healthcare IT advancement and celebrate progress.
Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Tevi David Troy said under President Bush’s leadership, the United States has spent the past eight years transforming healthcare in America.”
Article
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News, 31 October 2008

HIMSS: Ambulatory EMR Growth Slow but Steady

“Market growth of EMR implementations in ambulatory healthcare settings such as private medical practices or specialty clinics continues at a slow but steady pace, according to results from the Ambulatory Healthcare IT Survey, conducted by the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) and HIMSS Analytics.”
Article
Healthcare Informatics, 30 October 2008

Researchers Target Devices, EHRs

“HIMSS Analytics and the American College of Clinical Engineering, Plymouth Meeting, Pa., will survey hospitals to evaluate the patient safety and quality of care benefits of medical devices that share data with electronic health records.”
Article
Health Data Management, 9 October 2008

Does HIMSS hate open source?

“Open source advocate Fred Trotter writes today that HIMSS, the representative for the medical IT industry, is just a lobby for proprietary software.
He seems surprised.
I’m not. Any organization must represent its members, just as a publication is expected to advocate for its readers’ interests.”
Article
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare, 26 September 2008

HIMSS a lobby for proprietary Health IT vendors

“HIMSS is anti-Open Source and pro-propretary software. They allow us “Open Source” guys to give talks and even have working groups because they would be violating their charter if they did not. But they do not like us. They are terrified of us, and they should be. HIMSS lives off of the fat in Healthcare IT. Mature proprietary EHR systems have been around for decades, and they still have 5%-15% penetration. Why? They are too expensive and too risky. The doctors recognized that the vendor lock-in that they painfully experienced with Practice/Hospital  Management systems would be much worse with EHRs, and they have no intention of taking out extra mortages to make that happen.”
Article
Fred Trotter, 26 September 2008

Global lessons: U.S. can learn from others in adopting electronic health records

“The United States government and private sector payers must become more involved in the adoption of electronic health records if America is to catch up to adoption rates in leading nations, according to the co-author of a new global study of EHR adoption.”
Article
Joe Vanden Plas, WTN News, 24 September 2008

Electronic Health Records: A Global Perspective

“The HIMSS Global Enterprise Task Force (GETF) was asked to investigate efforts to implement electronic health record (EHR) in a host of countries around the world. GETF looked at a battery of Electronic Health Record (EHR) components within each country, including security, quality, financing sources and barriers to adoption. Four common threads that affect EHR implementation and produce a kinship between every effort around the globe were identified:
- Funding
- Governance
- Standardization and interoperability
- Communication
Local and nationwide efforts to realize EHR systems were intermittently reported in all the countries we studied. When analyzing these efforts, the common threads listed above helped to explain the success, barriers or implementation failures experienced in each country.”
Report
HIMSS, August 2008

HIMSS identifies global EHR implementation trends

“Electronic health record implementations are affected by four common factors across the globe, according to a task force of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
The 16-member Global Enterprise Task Force reviewed EHR implementations at healthcare IT centers in 15 countries in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.”
Article
Chip Means, Healthcare IT News, 9 September 2008

HIMSS President Slams PHRs: I Wonder Why?

“According to an interview in the WSJ Health Blog, Steve Leiber, the chief executive of HIMSS, is nervous about personal health records (PHRs).”
Article
Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News, 28 April 2008

HIMSS Leader Raises Doubts on PHRs

“Interesting post this afternoon over on the WSJ Blog. Appears that Steve Leiber, the head of the industry group HIMSS made some comments to the reporters that were not all that positive regarding PHRs, more specifically stating: “Physicians aren’t going to trust it.”
I have two problems with this.”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Reserach, 25 April 2008

HIMSS EMEA to deepen European focus

“The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s EMEA branch will look to increase its focus in the EU region with the development of HIMSS Europe, officials said.”
Article
Chip Means, Healthcare IT News.eu, 25 April 2008

The Security of Patient Data

“HIMSS Analytics, the research arm of the powerful, thoughtful and highly regarded Health Information Management Systems Society, has published a sobering study, Security of Patient Data - see here - that highlights the gap between hospital patient data security practices and the reality of impacts if a breach occurs. The report, commissioned by Kroll Fraud Solutions, should be a splash of cold water to health care executives in all settings with responsibility for patient data. A link to the Executive Summary has been placed at the bottom of this post.”
Article
Brian Klepper, The Health Care Blog, 8 April 2008

HIMMS Report

The Interoperability Showcase Brings the Reality of Health Information Exchange to HIMSS08

“For the 2,800 attendees that visited the Interoperability Showcase at the 2008 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, this interactive and collaborative event showed how patient health information can be shared across multiple clinical information systems. This update from HIMSS provides the latest information about the Interoperability Showcase, including comments from three attendees who tracked their personal health record through the demonstration.”
Article
HIMSS News, 25 March 2008

CSW North America Showcases Case Notes(TM) - the Next Generation, Patient-Centric Electronic Health Record System

“CSW North America today announced that it will showcase its patient-centric interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) system - Case Notes™ - at the HIMSS Annual Conference 2008 in Orlando, FL.
Case Notes is a proven, end-to-end EHR system that displays a single patient record across multiple care providers, empowering health professionals to deliver the best possible healthcare throughout a patient’s lifetime. Used by physicians, hospitals, labs, radiology centers, skilled nursing facilities and emergency departments, Case Notes seamlessly coordinates clinical processes and connects users across multiple care settings.”
Article
redOrbit, 19 February 2008

HIMSS - PHR Platforms MIA

“Received an email this weekend from the organizers of the big healthcare IT conference, HIMSS, which will be held next week in Orlando. This is the BIG EVENT, where virtually all present and future players in the HIT market come to pontificate on HIT’s future (e.g., both Google’s and Revolution Health’s CEOs will be giving keynote presentations).”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 18 February 2008

Pending SCHIP bills have health IT provisions

“The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has identified the pending State Children’s Health Insurance Program legislation as a prime opportunity to get a federal health information technology law passed this year.”
Article
Nancy Ferris, Government Health IT, 4 September 2007

HIMSS Releases Definition, Position Statement for PHR

“The HIMSS Personal Health Record Steering Committee has developed a HIMSS-sponsored definition and position statement for personal health records (PHR).”
Article, Report
HIMSS, 10 August 2007