From Big Data To Smarter Care: What, Why & How Healthcare is undergoing a massive transformation. That’s no secret. Reimbursement is shrinking, providers are being asked to shoulder more risk, and patients are more involved in their care than ever. The ability to use analytics to transform data into actionable information — smarter business and clinical decisions — will play a big role in who survives this transformation....

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Massachusetts Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they...

Cybersecurity | Compliance | Threat Management No one wants to be a ransomware target; no one wants to pay millions in HIPAA fines or be targeted by nation-state cyberthreats. As a leader, you have to put in the work. Stay informed. And adapt your framework for evolving threats. That's why we've created the Healthcare Security Forum: to provide healthcare-specific defense tactics, urgent industry updates, and critical security strategies you n...

Accelerating the Vision, Enhancing Care At the HIMSS Precision Medicine Summit, we’re taking on healthcare’s most daunting precision medicine challenges. Join your peers as the nation’s leading institutions take a deep dive into leveraging technology, diagnostics, genomics, and analytics for treating disease. What you'll get: Dip deeper than ever into precision medicine barriers with 2 full days of expert keynotes, panels and...

Course "Applying ISO14971 and IEC62304 - A guide to practical Risk Management" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion. Gaps, incorrect or incomplete implementation of safety functionality can delay or make the certification/approval of medical products impossible. Most activities cannot be retroactively performed since they are closely linked into the deve...

An effective complaint handling system is an extremely important part of any quality system. Manufacturers should understand that any complaint received on a product shall be evaluated and, if necessary, thoroughly investigated and analyzed, and corrective action shall be taken. The results of this evaluation should lead to a conclusion regarding whether the complaint was valid, what the root cause of the complaint was, and what action is nece...

The secret is - HIPAA Rules are easy and routine to follow - when they are explained step-by-step in plain language. In this seminar Paul Hales will capture your attention with visual presentations, discussion and learning exercises and show how to find the right rule with the step-by-step procedures you need when you need them. Seminar Takeaways Thorough Understanding of HIPAA Rules What they are How they work together Why and How they were m...

Prior to developing a process control plan as part of an overall risk management strategy, process development studies must be completed. The objective of these process development studies is to gain knowledge and understanding about how variation in process parameters explains variation in the product quality characteristics of the product. The use of DOE methodology provides a means to identify process parameters which impact product quality...

Course "New FDA FSMA Rules on the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Foods" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion. Transportation and Logistics food transportation food safety rules are currently being finalized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Under congressional instructions, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires the...

30th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA16) LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world. LISA is the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA16 program addresses the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations an...