HX360 Blog

HIMSS and AVIA Launch HX360™ to Improve Health Care Delivery through Emerging Technologies - New co-developed initiative will work with health systems to inspire and facilitate the adoption and use of next-generation technologies - Chicago, IL – October 8, 2014 – Today, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and AVIA announced HX360™, a new co-developed initiative. HX360 was created to improve the way that health care is delivered by both inspiring and facilitating the adoption and use of next generation (non-EHR Platform) technologies by provider organizations, in...

October 22 2014, 5:54AM

Nate Smith

Turning data into insight: Event-based notifications drive improved outcomes

In order to improve health care quality in a meaningful way, physicians must be empowered to make informed clinical decisions. This includes being promptly notified of changes to a patient’s health status and any new “care events.” A care event could include the patient receiving care from a specialist, being seen in an emergency department or admitted to a hospital and then discharged to home or to another facility.

October 22 2014, 5:53AM

David Palkoner

Delivering Health Care by Drone

Could the use of technologies that distance healthcare providers from the first-hand experience of the suffering of those they care for lead to a collective “stumbling over lines” with unfortunate consequences?

October 22 2014, 5:16AM

Roy Smythe