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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. And it’s in personal health information: a medical record is valued 8 to 10 times the price of a credit card on the black market. Providers put patient safety as #1.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. health care providers operating on slim margins.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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TEFCA’s Moment and Policy Changes on the Horizon: A Conversation with Eric Musser at NCQA

Healthcare IT Today

Musser highlighted that TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) is gaining momentum as more industry players, like Oracle and Epic, commit to becoming Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Stakeholders Needed to Help Shape the Future Policy.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

states expanding access to these methods for the 2020 election, where these options have been made available due to the pandemic and electoral leadership throughout the U.S. concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

This innovator positions itself as “dataware for food managers” and offers several solutions — including helping clients manage diet and promote health eating, leveraging food raw data. Sleep as medicine — Sleep issues are an underlying factor for many chronic conditions, and good sleep bolsters well-being.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.