Join Colleen Russell MSN, RN-BC, a regional clinical informaticist in operations and special services for a large healthcare system, as she shares her insights on a career in nursing informatics. With 21 years of vast experience in healthcare, she has expertise in critical care; information systems/technology; and business analysis of hospitals. This includes more than […]

Let’s accept the fact that we want to feel secure in some way, whether it is secure in our jobs, our relationships, or our personal safety and wellbeing.  We want the best for our families, our business endeavors or, as in healthcare, for the other people for whom we have some degree of responsibility.  But […]

The first national HIMSS conference took place on April 1, 1962, at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore.  It is appropriate the event began in those Camelot days, when people asked themselves not what can be done for them but what they can do for others.  The seed from which today’s HIMSS conference grew started with […]

Need to know the dosage for a patient’s medication?  Tough, pay me.  Need to know the lab results for that biopsy?  Tough, pay me.  Need to access your notes to reconsider a patient’s prognosis?  Tough, pay me. Well, this is a new problem, isn’t it? Paper records on a shelf?  Pretty hard to walk off […]

Welcome to Code Red, HIMSS’s new health IT cyber security podcast. Code Red focuses on cyber security challenges facing health care today & tomorrow, featuring the voices of the people on the front lines. The goal of the podcast is to explore the interplay between the people, processes & technologies that make up an organization’s […]

On March 12, 2008, the New York Times reported about a team of computer security researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Universities of Washington and Massachusetts that able to gain wireless access and reprogram a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker to deliver potentially fatal jolts of electricity to a person with the […]

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.  When those words from the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” were first published in 1798, the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described a story of a sailor who had returned from a long sea voyage, what was gained and what was lost on the […]

Dr. Michael Miller, director of research informatics, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, discusses how as a research informaticist, he uses data for clinical care as well as research. Dr. Miller is interested in learning how to use information entered into EHRs for the maximum benefit […]

In celebration of Data Privacy Day, taking place each year on January 28th, members of the HIMSS Privacy and Security Committee talk about ways to help protect patient privacy. In part 1 of the series, Meredith Phillips, Chief Information Privacy and Security Officer for Henry Ford Health System discusses several common scenarios involving breaches […]

Vikram R. Kumar MD MBA FAAP, chief medical information officer at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Southern California and practicing pediatrician, discusses how informatics affects his daily routine, both as a leader and at a clinical level.