Presentations delivered at Cisco’s Community for Connected Health Summit Feb. 25, at HIMSS08 in Orlando, are now available online. “Creating a High-Performance Healing Environment—a CEO’s Perspective” by Michael H. Covert, President and CEO, Palomar Pomerado Health. “HIMSS Analytics Survey Results” moderated by Dave Garets, FHIMSS, President and CEO, HIMSS AnalyticsTM and Executive Vice President, HIMSS, [...]
Archive for April, 2008
HIMSS MS-HUG Tech Forum Presentations Available Online
Presentation delivered at the MS-HUG Tech Forum, Feb. 24, at HIMSS08 in Orlando, are now available on the MS-HUG Web site. Visit the MS-HUG Web site. Choose which presentation you want to view and click the PDF icon at the bottom of each session listing.
Social media in healthcare whitepaper that’s worth a read
One of the best “introduction to Health 2.0″ whitepapers I’ve found on the web is The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media written by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of THINK-Health for the California Healthcare Foundation. The whitepaper goes through the usual evolution of Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and the effects of this transition [...]
Epocrates to be the next killer app for the iPhone?
Digital Healthcare & Productivity has a great interview with Kirk Loevner, chairman and CEO of Epocrates that outlines their iPhone strategy and why it is so important to both the company and the greater healthcare community. I have Epocrates Essentials software installed on my PDA and find it a great way to quickly demonstrate the [...]
British Columbia releases eHealth legislation
British Columbia’s Provincial Government has become the first province in Canada to create a specific legislative framework governing provincial eHealth initiatives. “The Act will move British Columbia a step closer to the goal of giving citizens access to their health records and medical information, while strengthening privacy protection”, said Health Minister George Abbott. British Columbia [...]
Toronto to host first Medicine 2.0 Congress!
This year Toronto will play host to the first Medicine 2.0 Congress. The conference is bring organized by Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and a founding editor-in-chief and publisher of the [...]
The PHR: if patients adopt it, will doctors trust it?
One of the most intuitive pieces I’ve read thus far on the evolution of the PHR appeared this week in the New York Times Health Blog. While the benefits of a PHR to the patient seem on the surface to be quite obvious and most of the discussion thus far of services such as Microsoft’s [...]
Microsoft HUG Tech Forum 2008
Call for Proposals & Registration Now Open! MS-HUG Tech Forum 2008 — Redmond, WA Microsoft Corporate Campus August 26th & 27th, 2008Interested in presenting or attending the MS-HUG Tech Forum 2008 in Redmond, WA? The Call for Proposal process and Registration for the next Tech Forum event is now open! If you are interested in [...]
Google vs. Microsoft Healthcare showdown
There is a very good post over on Vince Kuraitis’ eCare Management Blog that is worth a read for those following the development of the PHR market or simply interested in keeping track of whose winning in the Google vs. Microsoft showdown. Vince does a great job comparing and contrasting Google Health (GH) and Microsoft [...]
2008 Health 2.0 Conference registration open
The 2008 Health 2.0 conference is scheduled for October 21st – October 23rd in San Francisco. Last year’s Health 2.0 and Health 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare conferences sold out quickly, so if you are in interested in attending I would recommend you resister as soon as possible. Early Bird Registration 150 early bird passes are on [...]
Patient safety goes mobile with Epocrates
While researching some ideas regarding mobile device usage at the point of care, I came across some great videos featuring Epocrates. Epocrates is a company that develops clinical information and decision support tools for mobile devices, some of which are even available to medical professionals free of charge. The content provided with these tools is [...]
Health Privacy Workshop – University of Waterloo – April 2008
HEALTH PRIVACY PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP LAST CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS: FRIDAY, APRIL 11th Date: Wednesday, April 16 (eve.) – Thursday, April 17, 2008 Where: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada The Health Privacy Professional Workshop is an intensive learning experience that gives you the knowledge, skills and tools needed to develop, implement, and manage a comprehensive privacy [...]
Mircosoft on the future of Healthcare
Microsoft has been developing a compelling vision pertaining to the future of healthcare and an even more cool concept video. The video features interactive displays integrated into almost every surface imaginable, unified communications that extend beyond the care team to the patient and creative uses of elegantly designed mobile devices that would make even Steve [...]
Body Maps builds an API for the human body!
I came across a fantastic web app today that is basically a Google Maps for the human body. Bodymaps is a startup company out of Los Angeles. They have developed a publicly available, incredibly cool and arguably invaluable learning resource as well as an API to extend their platform to developers who can then create [...]
EU eHealth without frontiers Conference
The eHealth 2008 conference, with the theme of “eHealth without frontiers”, will be held in Slovenia between May 6-7, 2008. It is the sixth in a series of high-level eHealth conferences that have taken place since 2003. As always, this conference is a key date in the eHealth annual policy awareness-raising agenda. The conference will [...]
Managing the Medical Imaging Tsunami – Stemming the Data FloodGuest
WIHIR Smarter Health SeminarTITLE: Managing the Medical Imaging Tsunami – Stemming the Data FloodGuest SPEAKER: Dr. David Koff, Chief, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hamilton Health Sciences & Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology, McMaster DATE: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 TIME: 3:00PM – 4:30PM LOCATION: Davis Centre Room 1302, University of Waterloo Register to attend [...]
