HIMSS

What is information blocking?

It’s harder than ever to hire and retain staff at medical practices. Here’s what you can do about it.

The HIMSS22 Global Health Conference kicked off with a motivational challenge for the health care industry.

Wearable devices that gather health and movement data are being put to new uses in the clinical setting for glucose monitoring, pain management and distraction, rehabilitation, and treatment adherence.

A concierge doc shares his experiences with using chatbot technology as a way to provide patients more value.

Healthcare organizations are always looking to save money, but physicians rarely know the effect of their treatments or medications. Here's how to change that.

The big health IT conference has finished. What did this editor learn from the annual show?

The EHR is the cause for many physicians to be burned out - but this doesn't have to be the case.

Healthcare data is a huge target for hackers. If a practice is reactionary, all of their hard work could be at risk.

At HIMSS18, less regulation and more market-driven innovation was the name of the game for the ONC's top officials.

Technology is blurring healthcare's privacy lines. There's no better example of this than a tech-savvy adolescent reaching out to a physician for medical help.

The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association talks to us at HIMSS18 about familiar pain points for practices.

Despite the great amount of attention paid to the American opioid epidemic, abuse remains at an all-time high. It's time for a new perspective.

Clinical registries can assist medical practices with their quality initiatives, but also provide a high-tech community, says one expert.

Jared Kushner and Seema Verma spoke at HIMSS18 about the administration's vision for interoperability and better patient data access.

Looking for a way to lessen administrative burden at your practice? Start with putting the patients first.

Just because a practice doesn't have as much PHI as a hospital doesn't mean it's safe from hackers, as this HIMSS18 speaker reveals.

Tech can do great things in health care, but it can also lead to a failure in communication.

Implementing smartphones into clinical practice can improve physician response times, increases efficiency and transforms care team communication.

HIMSS18 has arrived. The Physicians Practice editorial staff has gone through and picked out the top 10 things you should do during your limited time in Las Vegas.

There are small but significant steps all of us who work in healthcare can take to stop physician burnout and better engage physicians in value-based care.

CMS says that its goal is to get a 90 percent participation rate with MACRA for all clinicians. Yes, this includes small practices.

Facing something like the Zika epidemic is challenging for any healthcare organization, but especially when they lack significant resources.

Data-sharing collaborations between payers and providers have potential to improve the bottom line for healthcare organizations and the health of their patients.

To ensure practices' data are secure from breaches, a cybersecurity expert made the case for an open-minded and multidisciplinary approach to better compliance.

Technology is a useful tool to personalize the patient experience along the care journey while improving well-being and producing better outcomes.

Social media is a must for practices to engage patients in today's day and age. So a governance program is essential.