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By Kat Jercich | 05:03 pm | May 12, 2020
CMS will require hospitals to adopt the Hybrid Hospital-Wide 30-Day Readmission measure by 2023. Experts say you should start preparing now.
By Mike Miliard | 02:10 pm | May 12, 2020
The tools could help payers manage the demands of standards-based interoperability challenges, and also offer security, identity management and consent management.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:35 pm | May 12, 2020
In this special report, seven experts in personalized medicine – from Accenture, CereCore, Chilmark Research, Deloitte and Orion Health – offer best practices for optimizing technology to help health systems advance innovation.
By Kat Jercich | 01:27 pm | May 12, 2020
Even as ONC and CMS push for wider patient data sharing, many healthcare consumers are hesitant. The American Medical Association has issued new privacy principles supporting the rights of individuals to control how their health information is used. 
By Sophie Porter | 04:43 am | May 12, 2020
A recent HIMSS Nordic Community webinar – moderated by Bogi Eliasen, HIMSS Future50 and director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies – addressed how Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway have enabled a sustainable human-centred health environment that influenced their crisis management during the pandemic.
By Tammy Lovell | 02:59 am | May 12, 2020
Study found that increased mortality risk for ethnic minorities is only partially attributable to pre-existing clinical risk factors.
By Mike Miliard | 03:46 pm | May 11, 2020
The technique, called federated learning, is designed to enable collaboration among far-flung research organizations on machine learning models, while still protecting patient privacy.
By Kat Jercich | 01:22 pm | May 11, 2020
Hospital medical staff can stream live footage from inpatient units to nursing stations and initiate patient communication without having to physically enter rooms.