DFWHC and DFW HIMSS to co-host “Opioid Crisis” webinar on Oct. 10

09/18/2018

With communities and lawmakers alike responding to increased public pressure to find solutions to a deadly opioid crisis affecting every state in the U.S., the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) has partnered with the DFW Chapter of The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to co-host the October 10 webinar “Antidote to the Opioid Crisis is Rooted in Data.” The … Read More

EHN to host “Security Breaches in Healthcare” on July 25

07/17/2018

The Executive Healthcare Network (EHN) of DFW will be hosting the educational event “The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same: Security Breaches in Healthcare” on July 25 at the BravoTech Offices in Dallas from 7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Larry Neiswender, managing partner of Protect EHR, will serve as keynote speaker. Since 2011, Larry has worked with … Read More

Love’s comments detailed in Skilled Nursing News

03/20/2018

An appearance by DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) President/CEO W. Stephen Love during the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) Spring Investment Forum on March 8 was detailed in a post yesterday in Skilled Nursing News. Held at the Omni Hotel in Dallas, the event was highlighted by presentations on innovation in seniors housing and healthcare. The post, … Read More

Just two weeks until DFWHC’s March 29 “HACKED Data” event

03/15/2018

Just two weeks until the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) and Hall Render complimentary event “HACKED: The case of a hospital’s data held HOSTAGE” on Thursday, March 29 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the Meadows Conference Center in Dallas. Mark Swearingen, a Hall Render attorney who oversaw the case of a recent U.S. hospital where hackers demanded payment of … Read More

Hospital’s “hacked data” – March 29 event to detail case study

02/20/2018

The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) in association with Hall Render will host the complimentary educational event “HACKED: The case of a hospital’s data held HOSTAGE” on Thursday, March 29 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the Meadows Conference Center in Dallas. Mark Swearingen, an attorney at Hall Render who personally oversaw the case of a recent U.S. hospital where … Read More

KPN Health – The Importance of Big Data in Healthcare

11/28/2017

The DFW Hospital Council is posting blogs submitted by our Associate Members. The following was provided by KPN Health, Inc. For guidelines, please contact Chris Wilson at chrisw@dfwhc.org. Blog by Don Navarro, Chairman, KPN Health and David Hultsman, Chief Technology Strategist, KPN Health Big Data is not a new concept. It is a better marketing “word” to describe the increasingly … Read More

Foundation data combined with asthma-related Twitter study

05/12/2016

The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation’s hospital data was combined with an analysis of real-time Twitter data to project population-level asthma ED visits and hospital admissions, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting last week in Baltimore. Researchers used Twitter location data to isolate tweets from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and only included asthma-relevant tweets in … Read More