Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The outgoing national coordinator discusses interoperability, the promise of innovation and how he used a Palm Pilot to be a better clinician at the point of care. 

The outgoing department head touts big advancements in access to care, quality improvements and cost efficiencies - thanks in large part to health IT and data-driven innovation. But she points to much work still to be done in the years ahead.

The virtual care management tool is now available as part of athena's More Disruption Please program.

The firm also found that tech illiteracy is the next roadblock to achieving population health success.

As the conference does every year, HIMSS17 will bring a strong education focus on electronic health records trends, best practices and news. 

Eric Topol and Kathryn Haun make the case for keeping medical data in personal clouds or digital wallets, empowering patients and removing centralized targets for cybercrooks, in a New York Times op-ed piece.

Here are some of the most popular stories of the past year – and a few that were emblematic of the momentous trends that shaped healthcare information technology in 2016.

The HealthcareScene founder shares expectations for HIMSS in Orlando, pet peeves, his health IT hero and one of his most popular blogs that might be unexpected among his followers. 

Starting with ONC leadership, the Trump team should seek to hold the gains in electronic health record adoption and interoperability, the group says.

President-elect Donald Trump selected Tom Bossert as White House homeland security and counterterrorism advisor - and elevated the position as an assistant to the president, the incoming administration announced Dec. 27.