Dell Talks Mobility at HIMSS 13
At HIMSS 13, Craig Spencer, director of mobile clinical computing at Dell, explained how mobility has always been important in healthcare and how best to accommodate the Bring-Your-Own-Device...
View ArticleRoadshow Unveils Next Gen Mobile Health IT Devices
If you were at HIMSS this year, you saw how mobility is dominating the current health IT landscape. Today’s healthcare industry demands the latest technology and solutions from companies that are in...
View ArticleInnovating with Cloud and Big Data in Healthcare and Life Sciences
In the past year, I’ve blogged about big data and cloud computing. Increasingly, the two are converging in ways that have transformative potential for healthcare and life sciences. From electronic...
View ArticleHow to Manage Privacy and Security Risks for Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine, or tailoring medicine to individuals based on genetic and other information, promises major benefits to improve the quality of healthcare. This key trend is also sure to...
View ArticleHow Electronic Data Capture Can Reduce Errors
Stop me if you have heard this story before: an organization has a paper workflow that involves keystroke entry, which results in errors and inefficiencies. Sound familiar? That was the case with the...
View ArticleHow to Securely Collect Data for Personalized Medicine
In my last blog, I discussed the rationale for applying privacy and security best practices to enable the benefits of personalized medicine while minimizing risks of breaches and other types of...
View Article5 Questions For….Dr. Lyle Berkowitz
Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, associate chief medical officer of innovation for Northwestern Memorial Hospital, believes that failure leads to innovation. His book, Innovation with Information Technologies in...
View ArticleNavigating Mobility and BYOD in Healthcare IT
At HIMSS 13, Craig Spencer, director of mobile clinical computing at Dell, explained how mobility has always been important in healthcare and how best to accommodate the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD)...
View ArticleHow Healthcare Technology Can Make a Difference in Developing Countries
Below is a guest blog from Narayan Sundararajan, global healthcare program manager at Intel, who attended last month’s Global Midwifery Symposium. Think about this: pre-eclampsia/eclampsia,...
View ArticleStreamlining Communications with an In-House App
For the past 12 years or so, San Francisco-based MedAmerica has relied on a web portal to keep doctors in touch with other physicians and clinical staff. More recently, as the BYOD trend has helped...
View ArticleChina Leading on Caring for Aging Population
China, like the rest of the world, is dealing with a massive aging population. Add to this a rising middle class migrating to the cities and a changing family structure and the stresses to China's...
View ArticleThe Promise of Big Data in Healthcare
We have all heard the term “big data” more than a few times over the past two years. There’s little doubt that large amounts of relevant information put to good use and analyzed—otherwise known as...
View ArticleACOs on Steroids: Joining the Oregon Experiment
It’s vividly educational to pitch in on the front lines of a grand challenge like the Oregon Experiment, sometimes described as “ACOs on steroids.” • How do you take a financially strapped program...
View ArticleStandardizing the Hospital Discharge Summary in a Metro Area
There’s essentially a 1-in-5 chance that a Medicare patient will be readmitted within 30 days of being discharged from a hospital. The U.S. government estimates $17 billion USD a year could be saved...
View ArticleHow to Securely Use Data for Personalized Medicine
In my last blog, How to Securely Collect Data for Personalized Medicine, I discussed risks and safeguards for how to collect data for personalized medicine. The next step in the information lifecycle...
View ArticleCloud and Big Data Come of Age in Health IT
Below is a guest blog by Jon D. Morrow, M.D., Senior Medical Leader, Clinical Business Solutions, at GE Healthcare. Also posted below you will see a video conversation with Eric Dishman, general...
View ArticleHow to Leverage Tablets, Data Storage in Health IT
Mobile point-of-care and the introduction of tablet devices is transforming healthcare and changing the way doctors and nurses chart and share data. This shift in new technology is driving innovation...
View ArticleHow Health IT Big Data Will Improve Patient Outcomes
Big data in healthcare is gaining a lot of attention as the drive to personalized medicine shifts into high gear. Recently, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a forum that focused on improving...
View ArticleFostering Patient-Doctor Collaboration
Mobile technology is exploding in the healthcare field, and fostering new innovation. We recently caught up with Dr. Bettina Experton, founder and CEO of Humetrix, who talked about the company’s new...
View ArticleTablet Convertibles Enhance Doctor Workflow
There’s little doubt that clinician workflow is changing. The days of paper records are over, and mobile technology is taking productivity and patient interaction to a new level. But where are we...
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