Often when we think of mobile Health we focus on mobile as in cellular devices however there is a great deal innovation taking place in other areas of this market that will have impact beyond the iPhone. Bluetooth is one of these technologies that is a rather silent but potentially huge game changer. When most [...]
Archive for eHealth Articals
GE Launches Centricity Advance EMR SaaS
Leveraging the acquisition of MedPlexus, GE today announced the launch of Centricity Advanced, a SaaS EMR including physician office management with an integrated patient portal. This is an interesting release in that rather than porting an EMR from the client server world, Centricity Advance has been designed and built as a native web application and [...]
Study concludes CPOE saves lives
The Wall Street Journal has reported that a study conducted at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford concludes what many in the industry have believed for years; that the implementation of CPOE can have a meaningful and immediate result on patient outcomes. The study found that monthly mortality rates dropped by 20% to .7 [...]
Gov 2.0 meets Healthcare
On June 4th, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially launched a public sector / private sector collaboration dubbed: The Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI). The initiative will make data sets pertaining to public health open and easily accessible.It is hoped that this will result in innovative, creative and practical uses to [...]
US Military Health System declares EHR a Strategic Priority
The US Military Health System has released a new 5 year Strategic Plan that has two main goals: redesigning the MHS IT architecture and delivering a robust Electronic Health Record. Furthermore the plan is focused on enabling collaboration among the armed services, Tricare the services’ health plan organization, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the MHS [...]
Microsoft Health Tech Today
Microsoft has launched an online Heatlhcare Technology show: “Health Tech Today with Dr. Bill Crounse is a monthly online series providing cutting-edge stories at the intersection of health and information technology. The show features informative interviews with some of the world’s top health leaders; compelling health-related personal stories; and the latest technology and IT innovations.” [...]
HealthVault Solutions Conference 2008 Materials
For those of you unable to attend or just plain curious, Microsoft has posted the HealthVault Solutions Conference presentations here.
Medicine 2.0 Conference: Presenters, Abstracts, and Papers posted
An impressive list of presentations has been released and posted on the Medicine 2.0 Conference site for the September 4-5 Toronto event. Early bird registration expires June 30th, so if you are interested in attending best to save the $100 and ensure you get a ticket!
The argument for evidenced based Healthcare Technology
There are many philosophical, cultural and even language barriers that exist between the medical and information technology worlds and bridging this gap with the ultimate aim of improving healthcare is one of the primary challenges faced by both camps. Case in point, the term “bleeding edge” doubtless means something drastically different to a Chief Information [...]
Unbound Medicine pursues mobile medical applications market leadership with iPhone portfolio
Unbound Medicine is looking to become a leader in the mobile medical application market by releasing tools and applications specifically designed for the iPhone. Unbound MEDLINE one of their offerings tracks medical journals and searches across 17 million journal citations while adaptations of current book titles such as Harrison’s Manual of Medicine and Pocket Guide [...]
Open Source Healthcare is just getting started!
Open Source in any an all forms for Healthcare is fast becoming a hot topic and organizations and tools are beginning to pop up all over the web. I’ve seen a broad range of sites and mentions recently including: Strategic Industry level standards based organizations such as the Open eHealth Foundation which was founded at [...]
Cisco’s Community for Connected Health Summit Presentations Now Online
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, [...]
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.
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 [...]
Introducing HL7
If you are interested learning more about HL7 but lack a PhD in computer science, then you’ll find Shahid’s post HL7 Primer for non-techies over on the Healthcare IT Guy Blog extremely useful.
Self Service scheduling long overdue!
Today we can book a flight on virtually any airline, a hotel room almost anywhere in the world, a rental car, a dinner reservation, a museum tour, buy tickets to a concert or the theatre all online, however millions still have to pick up the phone and endure hours of busy signals until they finally [...]
Microsoft launches Amalga Healthcare Systems
Microsoft has launched some new, and rebranded some existing products as the Amalga family of Health Enterprise Systems. This was a big focus at their booth at HIMSS this year where they had a great variety of demos on hand to interact with and introduce the new solutions. The demos I saw looked fantastic and [...]
Top 5 RFID priorities for hospital implementations
This week in Healthcare IT News: At the inaugural RFID in Healthcare Conference, produced by RFID Journal, on Jan 23rd, Awarepoint CEO Jason Howe is set to provide hospitals with the key criteria that should be considered when implementing RFID projects. Howe believes RFID projects should be: Room-level accurate: the location of assets within hospitals [...]
A good collection of Microsoft Healthcare Blogs
Roberto Ruggeri, a Senior Technical Strategist with Microsoft Worldwide Health has assembled a good list of Blogs (his included) that focus on Microsoft Technologies. Find the complete list here!
Screen shots of a Google Health EHR prototype!
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. I think it’s safe to say they’ve done a pretty good job executing on that mission in web search, geospatial information, academic journals and innumerable other areas. Now Google appears to be making a significant effort to systematize both the [...]
