HIMSS18

Don't miss education sessions at HIMSS18

There are hundreds of education sessions for everyone from CEOs and CIOs to IT pros, nurses, doctors and payers. We've talked to the experts and there's a lot of educational opportunities. Here are some highlights of case studies and many industry leaders you'll meet in Vegas this year.

Don't Miss Sessions at HIMSS18

EHR sessions at HIMSS18
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From artificial intelligence to simulation training, there are many sessions about making the most...
By Jack McCarthy |
HIMSS18 guide to patient experience
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From the rise of Chief Experience Officers and cool new tools to scalable programs, there are a lot...
By Jack McCarthy |
telehealth
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Telemedicine and telehealth implementation strategies, case studies, regulatory issues and more...
By Jack McCarthy |
Blockchain in healthcare
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Our look at the events to expect around one of the most exciting technological developments right...
By Jack McCarthy |
cloud computing guide at HIMSS18
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A look at the highlights of what will be among the hottest topics at this year’s health IT...
By Jack McCarthy |
guide to revenue cycle at HIMSS18
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The revenue cycle is changing with AI and hospitals look to emulate financial services, tech-wise.
By Jack McCarthy |
population health at HIMSS18
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A collection of population health management highlights on this year's health IT conference...
By Jack McCarthy |
CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will lead discussions, answer...
By Bernie Monegain |
HIMSS Olympic Healthcare Interoperability Initiative
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The Olympic Healthcare Interoperability Initiative hopes to offer a seamless data exchange among...
By Mike Miliard |
HIMSS Stage 7
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At HIMSS18, Pagosa Springs Medical Center CMIO Michelle Flemmings will explain how the Colorado...
By Mike Miliard |
telehealth and predictive analytics
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A new approach to preventing falls with telehealth and predictive analytics technologies has...
By Beth Jones Sanborn |
Seema Verma CMS to speak at HIMSS18
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The federal official and long-time industry consultant will be speaking at Views from the Top...
By Bernie Monegain |
VA Secretary David Shulkin to keynote HIMSS18
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Agency leader will discuss delivering coordinated care in the 21st century and will be joined by...
By Bill Siwicki |
HIMSS18 innovation symposium
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Thought-leading innovators from startups and major academic medical centers will convene on March 5.
By Bernie Monegain |
Nursing Informatics Symposium
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Speakers at the daylong preconference event will address the roles nurses play in public health,...
By Jeff Lagasse |
HIMSS18 Precision Medicine Symposium
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Experts will address a range of topics from current challenges to the future vision of precision...
By Bill Siwicki |
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Billing process causes so much confusion that patients say they aren’t 100 percent sure what...
By Beth Jones Sanborn |
telehealth
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To accommodate the public’s demand, the health system is working to incorporate telehealth...
By Dave Muoio |
Kaiser Permanente Colorado telemedicine
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KP Colorado has managed to resolve nearly two-thirds of patient issues via chat.
By Jonah Comstock |
machine learning and AI in healthcare
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Don’t get lost in the complexity of large-scale use cases.
By Bill Siwicki |
patient experience
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Navigating the massive Western New York campus was a burden to patients, but its CIO tailored a...
By Jessica Davis |
EHR implementation
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A digital command center can add value and efficiency to an organization’s go-live operations...
By Bill Siwicki |
patient generated health data
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The trickiest part is getting people to keep using the devices, even six months is a challenge.
By Laura Lovett |
NIH precision medicine EHR
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A nurse leader at the National Institutes of Health discusses the progress the organization is...
By Bill Siwicki |
multimedia radiology reports
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The organizations use voice recognition and artificial intelligence to build interactive reports...
By Susan Morse |
antimicrobial stewardship
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Methodist Hospital of Southern California moved from a time-consuming, paper-based system to now...
By Bill Siwicki |
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HIMSS18 presenters explain how MU Health Care instituted a multi-pronged approach to boost...
By Bernie Monegain |
advance care planning
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Making Choices Michigan offers free advance directive services that Great Lakes Health Connect...
By Jeff Lagasse |
EHR sharing
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Amanda Greene will address conference-goers at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas on what it’s like to...
By Laura Lovett |
clinical decision support
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Hospitals and health systems should ensure their systems are well-connected to nursing homes, says...
By Bill Siwicki |
HIMSS Stage 7
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Hospital exec says help from everyone within an organization is needed to hit that milestone.
By Bill Siwicki |
Hospital CIOs
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CIOs need to eliminate unwarranted care variations, deploy telemedicine and encourage adoption of...
By Bill Siwicki |
AI chatbots
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Brett Swenson, MD, deployed a chatbot to improve engagement from EHRs to triage and found real...
By Laura Lovett |
Waterfall development
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Agile project management and waterfall can coexist and project managers can find value in learning...
By Bill Siwicki |
AI in healthcare
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The automated model to predict risk of unplanned ICU transfers and cardiopulmonary arrests...
By Bill Siwicki |
Allina Health
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By examining data on care variation and outcomes, the health system was able to reduce the length...
By Susan Morse |
physician burnout
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Thomas Jefferson chief Stephen Klasko and athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush believe a healthcare...
By Bernie Monegain |
doctor burnout
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HIMSS18 presenter and Health IT consultant Janae Sharp lost her husband to suicide and now believes...
By Beth Jones Sanborn |
Revenue cycle
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TransUnion Healthcare’s Revenue Cycle leader Jonathan Wiik will shed light on evolving...
By Beth Jones Sanborn |
Medicare Shared Savings Program
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Innovation Care Partners built a dashboard to engage physicians and offer financial incentives to...
By Susan Morse |
precision medicine bundled payments
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HIMSS18 presenters explain how Hackensack Meridian matches precision payment to precision medicine...
By Susan Morse |
HIMSS government relations
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A HIMSS government relations expert says hospitals can make an impact on policy and offers...
By Dave Muoio |
telehealth legislation
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With all the back and forth in Washington, D.C., lawmakers are not passing some important pieces of...
By Jonah Comstock |
health data breaches
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A team from Texas State University is developing a technique to identify flaws and outline the...
By Jessica Davis |
crowdsourcing analytics
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Threat detection response is more reactive than proactive but MITRE engineer explains how sharing...
By Jessica Davis |
cybersecurity risk
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Julia Hesse gets real about the inevitability of a breach and some simple steps for organizations...
By Jessica Davis |
CMS meaningful use requirements
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Hospitals can improve the overall process by getting the right people involved, institutions...
By Bernie Monegain |
medication adherence
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A mobile app for elderly patients in Italy helps better manage prescriptions drugs with an evolving...
By Bernie Monegain |
patient-centered care
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But building the new model of care plans is a difficult task, Mass General geriatrician Terry O...
By Bernie Monegain |
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Chris Mitchell, a business intelligence developer at the University of Virginia Medical Center,...
By Jeff Lagasse |
EHR alerts
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A consolidated architecture that combines patient EHR data with medication information could enable...
By Bernie Monegain |
patient data access
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The increase in patient engagement efforts in recent years has caused some basic rethinking of long...
By Mike Miliard |
Secure communications enhance clinical care
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The Hospital for Special Surgery began working last year to centralize the call center management...
By Susan Morse |
CXO in healthcare
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University of Chicago Medicine Chief Experience and Innovation Officer dives into her role and how...
By Jessica Davis |
AI analytics
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Thinking strategically about people and process that include adaptive workflows with strong...
By Mike Miliard |
HIMSS/SHIEC Interoperability & HIE Symposium at HIMSS18
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HIMSS and SHIEC offer a day-long symposium that finds consumerism influencing interoperability...
By Mike Miliard |
clinical documentation challenges
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Shawnee Mission Medical Center has different EHRs in separate care settings and that means...
By Jonah Comstock |
HIMSS18 Business of Healthcare Symposium
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The daylong HIMSS18 pre-conference symposium will address the unprecedented level of communication...
By Beth Jones Sanborn |
consumerism in healthcare
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While consumerism and retail concepts like customer satisfaction are nothing new to other...
By Jonah Comstock |
Precision medicine
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John Halamka and Paul Cerrato sift through the hope and the hype of personally-tailored care,...
By Mike Miliard |
VA telehealth
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The agency has revamped its healthcare program through text messaging, the Anywhere to Anywhere...
By Jessica Davis |
educating patients
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Researchers are investigating whether giving patients consumer-friendly digital tools can help...
By Dave Muoio |
population health doctor burnout
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This session will focus on lessons learned in getting physician buy-in amidst rampant change...
By Beth Jones Sanborn |
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While nearly half of clinical trials lack the participation to succeed, the hospital is deploying...
By Susan Morse |
population health
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The best population health management program is built on data and supported by robust operations...
By Susan Morse |