Men and Women’s health practices are different.  Everyone understands that.  However we haven’t necessarily undertood that the Information Technology advancements around medicine may need to be different by gender.
In an attempt to battle heart disease in women, Martin Merorial Health System has implmented a new EKG system specifically for women:
Women will receive a gender-specific EKG [...]

Governor Pawlenty’s proposed budget will undermine hospitals’ stability
and unravel the state’s health care safety net

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Pawlenty’s budget proposal announced today will severely hurt Minnesota’s hospitals and the citizens they serve. His proposed budget would entirely eliminate some payments to hospitals, unilaterally reduce payment rates for patients in state health [...]

The nations financial woes just keep coming.  I would like to be a “glass half full” person, but I am not sure we are at the end.  Health care has long been considered recession proof, but with state budgets being pummeled and health care being the #1 expense in many states we are going to [...]

We love to sing the praises of technology.  But what happens when technology gets in the way of eons of evolution?  This topic from the University of California TV discusses the problems with Technology in the birthing room.
On one hand, the survival rate of children and mothers has skyrocketed in the past 100 years.  On [...]

Quick and short update to the Women’s Health section here:  http://healthtechnica.com/blogsphere/womens-health/

The importance of privacy within the healthcare industry is as old as the practice of medicine.  In the middle of The Information Revolution, though, it has taken on a whole new level of complexity.  As soon as Electronic Medical Record (EMR) databases were being hosted on Private networks connected to The Internet. Information Security took [...]

One of the few comprehensive comparitive metrics that exist in Health Information Technology is the “Most Wired 2009″ survey by Hospitals & Health Networks.
I use this survey every year.  I am not interested in winning the award.  I am interested in determining a baseline of performance for my organizations.  This survey gives a good indication [...]

The “Green” Data Center is something of a dream in the health care world.  Intel is apparently going to give one a try.  ArsTechnica (no relation) has a quick article on the subject here:
Intel toys with running a datacenter on solar power