With millions of impressions, 143,164 Tweets by the beginning of day three and even encouraging a national Twitter trend, attendees at 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition were all a-twitter on Twitter about what the conference had to offer, from keynote speakers Michael Dell and Peyton Manning to the HealthTech Demo Zone to those ever-increasing lines for caffeine. Download our Free eBook: […]
“Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling,” said author Cecelia Ahern in her novel, “Love, Rosie.” Evoking the warm feeling of home couldn’t be more important than when you’re on the road as an IT consultant. The combination of jet lag, a new location and missing personal connections with family and friends all can cause […]
So you’ve followed our eight easy tips for improving your resume, eliminated these 35 words from your resume and added these 20 words to it instead. What’s next? You may not be surprised to hear this, but go over your resume again, this time for its formatting. Great resumes use a lot of white space, […]
Connect to your patients in a whole new way with Salesforce Health Cloud, the first Salesforce product built specifically for healthcare. Salesforce Health Cloud is a cloud-based patient relationship management solution that enables proviiders to gain a complete view of the patient with integrated data from EMRs, wearables and more; make smarter care decisions, engage […]
While the first HIMSS conference debuted in 1962 with only 54 attendees (and the exhibition didn’t debut until 1983 with ten exhibitors), the present-day HIMSS Conference and Exhibition draws in a lot more healthcare IT industry interest. The conference, held Feb. 29 – March 4 in Las Vegas, Nev., will have more than 500 speakers […]
With HIMSS 2016 right around the corner (Feb. 29 – March 4 in Las Vegas, NV), the health IT world is placing its bets on what the hot industry topics will be at the annual conference. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a list of more than 35 great healthcare IT leaders who will be engaging […]
While the words “healthy planet” may conjure up images of blue recycling bins, Captain Planet characters and a smiling Mother Earth, the Epic Healthy Planet module has everything to do with helping the people inhabiting the earth, versus keeping the planet green. Epic Healthy Planet is Epic Systems’ accountable care and population management system module, […]
If your New Year’s resolution involved eating better or losing weight, as a consultant, you may have found that flying all the time for work doesn’t always support those goals. Even if you’re not a consultant but have springtime travel plans, know what food you should eat on which airline to keep your health grounded, […]
Similar to the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, healthcare IT will play a critical role in tracking the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes flulike symptoms in patients and is particularly concerning for pregnant women. The virus is currently spreading in South America, Central America and the Caribbean, and disease surveillance technology is key […]
In the beginning, the benefits of health IT for patients and their families were to reduce paperwork, help doctors coordinate patients' care, protect their patient info, reduce unnecessary tests, ensure the correct medication is prescribed and allow patients to access their own records. Years after the inception of moving paper medical records to electronic, health IT benefits […]
As we near the second month of the year, those crowded gyms from the first of the year may be less packed, and our savings accounts may already fall short of the goals we proclaimed on Jan. 1. Even if you’ve already broken your personal New Year’s resolutions, you can still make 2016 your best professional […]
The employment outlook is favorable for healthcare and IT workers seeking contract or permanent roles in 2016, according to a new forecast from CareerBuilder. The company’s annual survey of employers finds nearly half (47%) will hire temporary or contract workers this year, up slightly from 46% in last year’s survey. The survey also found that […]