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The scholarship recognizes the leadership and innovation in digital health technology of its namesake, the HIMSS president and chief executive for more than 17 years.

Chartis, Kaiser Permanente alum has more than 35 years experience in digital health and has served as vice chair of the association's board.

CEO Stephen Lieber said the move will help speed the time for cutting-edge health IT products to reach the market. 

Organization asks HHS to move the deadline from Jan. 1, 2018, to July 1, 2018, to account for government delay in releasing final specs.

The industry association calls on CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt to focus on the key issues of data sharing and interoperability and to reduce the need for multiple reports from IT systems.

HIMSS is pushing the National Institute of Standards and Technology to keep its Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity voluntary. HIMSS, which represents more than 52,000 health IT professionals, wrote to NIST on Monday in response to its request for information. NIST has extended the original Tuesday comment deadline to Feb. 23. NIST noted it was looking for ways in which the framework is being used to improve cybersecurity risk management; how best practices for using the framework are being shared; the relative value of different parts of the framework; the possible need for an update of the framework, and options for long-term governance of the framework. [Also: Cybersecurity strategies evolving in face of big risk] As HIMSS sees it, the framework could be used as a tool to develop a common set of consensus-based, private sector-led guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures and processes in relation to privacy and information security risk management. Since many healthcare organizations could benefit from improving their risk management process and better address cybersecurity risks, HIMSS supports the idea that the Framework could be useful in helping healthcare organizations improve their security posture, wrote HIMSS President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber and and HIMSS Board Chair Dana Alexander in their response. They also discussed how NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework serves to inform organizations that are in need of either creating or updating their own risk management program. Whether an organization is standing up a new cybersecurity program or has a sophisticated program already in place, the Framework has the potential to serve organizations well in advancing the capabilities of organizations in addressing cybersecurity risk. [Like Healthcare IT News on Facebook] NIST first released Version 1.0 of the framework in February 2014. It is among a handful of security best practices and guidance standards gaining purchase in healthcare, including HITRUST Common Security Framework, ISO/IEC 27002 and Control Objectives for Information Technology, or COBIT. Responses will contribute to shaping NIST's decision-making about how to strengthen the framework and, ideally, the nation's critical infrastructure. Twitter: @HealthITNews

Hearst Health and the Jefferson College of Population Health have a panel of judges selecting an organization or individual to receive a $100,000 cash award outstanding achievement in the field of population health management.

The new conference will focus on cyber-security, population health and mhealth.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee gave the 21st Century Cures bill a unanimous sendoff Thursday, voting 51-0 to approve. But the proposed legislation faces big hurdles on the interoperability front.

Developing new cures for the thousands of diseases for which there is none may seem all well and good -- but some patient advocates say the 21st Century Cures initiative launched by a House of Representatives panel is throwing privacy out the window.