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 [...]
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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 [...]
