Electronic Health Records
A care coordinator driving toward a healthy conclusion is vital for patients.
IT Infrastructure
Leveraging tools to create an efficient workflow means keeping up with the latest software.
A look back to the key themes the Health Populi blog has covered since 2007.
HIE
In a medical crisis, clinicians need to know people’s medications, allergies, and medical histories to safely care for patients in shelters and to manage transfers between care settings.
The number of uninsured women in the U.S. fell by nearly a half, from 19 million in 2010 to 11 million in 2016.
Quality & Safety
Founder of The Walking Gallery of Healthcare honors friend and a leader who lent her voice to patients who needed to be heard.
Workforce
When I speak to groups about women in IT, I tell them not to put up with being bullied, intimidated and other nonsense.
Quality & Safety
Most affected are poor people with no insurance.
Workforce
Writing in a blog published on the HIMSS site, Willa Fields advises young women starting their healthcare IT career to find a mentor. On the flip side, she also urges women – and men – in healthcare IT to become a mentor for those just getting started in healthcare IT.
Fields is former chair of the HIMSS Board of Directors; a judge of the 2017 HIMSS Women in Health IT Awards; and professor, School of Nursing, San Diego State University
Many of the inequality concerns she has today, stem from the discrimination women continue to experience in the technology workplace today, she says, including pay inequality and the paltry representation of women in the executive suite today.
Read Fields’ blog here.
Women in Health IT
A few tips that can turn a difficult workday in healthcare IT into one that is productive.
