Articles by Paul Barr

LAS VEGAS — The 2016 HIMSS Conference & Exposition starts out with a double-threat of keynoters Monday evening, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, and Dell founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell.

Stephen Lieber, president of HIMSS, reveals some surprising news regarding attendance at this year's conference and offers the lowdown on the state of interoperability, in a video interview.

NIMH-funded effort will test method that allows patients to go on with their days.

With football and concussions in the news, Throwback Thursday takes a look at one of the earliest protective helmets, a spring-loaded military version invented by W.T. Warren.

The nursing shortage may not be as bad as once thought, but it is still manifesting itself in alarming ways.

Hospitals & Health Networks' Most Wired survey will feature a number of additions in 2016 to reflect the changes taking place in health care.

Hospital field leaders seeking to improve patient safety and quality have a couple of in-house resources that could be used more effectively: their own patient safety and quality data and their own patients, according to two leading quality experts.

The group seeks to maintain awareness for this underestimated threat.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today unveiled the participants in its Next Generation accountable care organization model, which is designed for ACOs with greater experience in coordinating care.

Any doubt about the consumer revolution in health care should be erased by the announcement that the National Qualify Forum is preparing for the day when consumers have more control.

The most read stories of 2015 reflect the trends taking place across health care.

At a time when academic medical centers are struggling to reconcile their model of care amid the changing health care system, Kaiser Permanente announced it will be creating its own medical school.

Keeping people healthy while they are living on the streets or in a shelter is a difficult task, which is why a growing number of hospitals and other community organizations are fighting that battle by helping the homeless find a stable place to live.

More than 200 hospitals in Illinois and Michigan will be asked to ramp up their quality and patient safety efforts even more next year as part of a partnership between the hospital associations representing those two states.

New data released publicly today showing that significant progress has been made in the diagnosis of new cases of diabetes is good news for hospitals and health care at large. Hospitals are among the many types of organizations working in a targeted way to reduce the incidence of diabetes, and it appears to be having an effect, according to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.