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Archives for February, 2009

Birth simulator robot helps trainees get a grip

We are on a bit of a robot kick today, but hey, what day isn't good for robots? This birth simulator helps new doctors learn the birthing process on a technological basis instead of jumping straight [+]

Robot Doctors. Good? Bad? Other? Let us know…

Robot Doctors... Love the idea?  Hate the Idea?  Let us know.  Leave some comments [+]

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive…

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman Are you familiar with the "HeartMath" program?  [+]

Departmental Effeciences: Finance Department (Part 1)

The HealthTechnica panel discusses how Information Technology will bring efficiencies and effectiveness to finance departments within the medical system. [+]

(Part 2) Departmental Effeciences: Finance Department

The HealthTechnica panel discusses how Information Technology will bring efficiencies and effectiveness to finance departments within the medical system. Part 2 [+]

(Part 2) Health Care Job Market – HealthTechnica

The HealthTechnica experts debate the job market and how it will play out in health care. Part 2. [+]

Health Care Job Market – HealthTechnica (Part 1)

The HealthTechnica experts debate the job market and how it will play out in health care.  Part 1 [+]

(Part2) EARLY discussion on Obama Stimulus for Health IT

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EARLY discussion on Obama Stimulus for Health IT (Part 1)

Early discussion taking place right after the signing of the bill: [+]

ShortHealth: Bridging the gap between clinicaian and IT

Today's ShortHealth segment is a regarding the gap between clinician and IT geek. What do you need to do to bring these two very different types of people together? [+]

Cisco hospital of the future – Palomar West

Cisco believes this is a shot into the future of health care: Let's just hope their idea is closer to the real future than this one: [+]

Information Security Concepts in Healthcare: Access Control

Of all the concepts in Information Security, Access Control is, by far, the most widely known. It is the public face of Information Security. It is the Lock for every key, The Deadbolt for every door, and theLogin Prompt for every Operating System. In short Access Control is the device by which unauthorized users/resources are prevented from using a system while, at the same time, allowing authorized users/resources through.

ShortHealth: Cost Savings in 2009 Health Care

Cost savings in 2009 are critical to the survival of our health care environments.  Today's ShortHealth gives a few tips! [+]

Value of Electronic Medical Records… CASE STUDIES

The folks on Twitter last night were getting pretty excited on the #healthcomm discussions.  Several people asked for case studies of the benefits of Electronic Medical Records.  This is what I found with 15 minutes [+]

Which “Medical” TV show is the most annoying? Little Friday 13th fun…

If you work in the real health care world you might just find these shows as annoying as we do.  They can be decent entertainment, but the inaccuracies and total falicies are often irritating as [+]

ShortHealth – Breaking into Health IT careers and jobs

Today's HealthTechnica ShortHealth segment is a discussion on how to break into Health IT careers and jobs. Additional resources:  HealthCareers on About.com Andrea Santiago from About.com on Twitter JobAngels on Twitter [+]

Wii-habilitation – Video games doing more for health that “Gamers Thumb”

It seems that the only thing video games have done for health care is to add a new ICD-9 code and diagnosis for "Gamers Thumb".  However, it seems that the Nintendo Wii has added some [+]

If Health Care can’t make standards, IT will do it….

I hear physicians and clinicians complaining endlessly about how they want to make decisions and not be lead around by the Information Technology folks. Well, the health care industry had better collectively start discussing [+]

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PodCast: HealthTechnica discussions on iTunes

HealthTechnica is now on iTunes [display_podcast] [+]

SENATE PASSES STIMULUS BILL WITH STRONG NEW PATIENT PRIVACY MEASURES

By a vote of 61 to 37, the U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009 (H.R. 1), which includes substantial changes for HIPAA covered entities. Many of [+]

The real future of Medicine – TeleMedicine using TelePresence

TeleMedicine is the real future of health care.  TelePresence is a new product line coming from Cisco Systems that will push the edges of the TeleMedicine environment. Look for an article on TeleMedicine soon.  In the [+]

Which EMR do you use?

Today's HealthTechnica Poll: [poll id="4"] [+]

A few key discussions of the last week

EMRs alone cannot reform healthcare, Connected Health chief warns Agreed.  EMRs are not a solution for health care reform, they are a tool to help us get there.  Again, remember my mantra: Crap Process + Technology = [+]

ShortHealth: Demand Management

ShortHealth is HealthTechnica's 1-4 minute video spot on a specific subject.  Short, sweet, to the point.  If you would like more detail, please let us know and we will do a full video. This ShortHealth segment [+]
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