Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

Instrumentation and Technology BI T), and the Journal of Clinical Engineering. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) produces the Journal of Healthcare Information Management and Healthcare IT News (published by MedTech). HIMSS, AAMI, ACCE, and CMBES all provide education courses during their conferences, as well as periodic webinars, teleconferences, special publications, etc. 

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (UlMSS)... 

Ortiz, A., and Etter, G. (1990), Simulation Modeling vs. Queuing Theory, in Proceedings of the 1990 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Conference, AHA, pp. 349-357. Roberts, S. D., and English, W. L., Eds. (1981), Survey of the Application of Simulation to Healthcare, Simulation Series, Vol. 10, No. 1, Society for Computer Simulation, La JoUa, CA. 

Doller, H. J. (1999), Medical Expert Systems How Do We Get There from Here in Proceedings of the 1999 Annual HIMSS Conference, Healthcare Information and Management Society, pp. 173-185. 

Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society s (HIMSS) Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence for Electronic Health Record (eHR), was able to reduce medication errors by 35% and decrease medication turnaround time by 52% through the use of an integrated clinical information system. 

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