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Archives for May, 2009

Health reform, is HIT really the savior?

The debate NEEDS to be held. [+]

Senator Mark Warner discusses Health Information technology

Senator Mark Warner from Virginia discusses Health Information Technology at a conference in mid-May. [+]

Free PR for Hospitals, Clinics, and other Medical Facilities

Who doesn't need some free PR?  If you have an announcement for your hospital, clinic, or other medical facility, you are now able to submit your announcements for free on HealthTechnica.com.   Whether you are opening [+]

New list of Clinical & Medical Tweeps

In an attempt to help Clinical & Medical folks around the world connect and collaborate, HealthTechnica has created a new list for health care professionals to list their social media connections. This list will be used [+]

Question and Answer Interview with Microsoft on the “Surface” and “Amalga”

At HIMSS09 I had the opportunity to sit down with folks from Microsoft and their partners to demonstrate the new Surface system running on top of Amalga.  After the conference I was able to connect [+]

What the hell does this picture have to do with Health Care?

What the hell does this picture have to do with health care? On the face of things, this pic has nothing to do with health care.  It is just a damn funny demotivational poster.  However, if [+]

Registration for the 2009 MN e-Health Summit is Now Open

The title and focus of this year’s summit is: Strategies for Success in Challenging Economic Times.  The Minnesota e-Health Summit will take place on June 25th from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 [+]

Registration for the 2009 MN e-Health Summit is Now Open

The title and focus of this year’s summit is: Strategies for Success in Challenging Economic Times.  The Minnesota e-Health Summit will take place on June 25th from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 [+]

KLAS has new info on the CT Market: Next Generation, 64, and 16

KLAS has a new look at next generation 64 and 16 slice CT machines.  Take a look at their report here:  CT Scanners Advanced CT systems beyond 64 slices are having a positive impact on patient [+]

Leveraging Technology to Improve Employee Health

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Measuring Health IT effectiveness

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Meaningful use, a 2 minute estimation

Everyone in Health Care NEEDS their part of the ARRA stimulus. However, what exactly does "Meaningful Use" HIT mean? The actual exact details won't be published until mid-summer (because the government hasn't decided what it means yet [+]

Cyborg Technology Part 4 – Beyond Human

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Cyborg Technology Part 3 – The real world

Part 3: This technology is very interested from the sense of science, but think what it could do for health care. Could we continually diagnose chronic disease? Could we have instant knowledge of [+]

Cyborg Technology Part 2 – Should we interfere in Evolution?

Part 2: This technology is very interested from the sense of science, but think what it could do for health care. Could we continually diagnose chronic disease? Could we have instant knowledge [+]

Cyborg Technology Part 1 – Can we build it?

This technology is very interested from the sense of science, but think what it could do for health care. Could we continually diagnose chronic disease? Could we have instant knowledge of heart palpitations? [+]

Texas Health has a new robotic surgery system

It is always fun to see new robotic surgery systems. These types of technologies take massive dollars to research and immense leadership support from the organization. They tend to be experimental and don't [+]

Intel steps into Patient Centered Medical Home

The folks at Intel are also looking at the PCMH model of medicine.  The more I see from the large IT companies, the more apparent it is that PCMH is a movement that will not [+]

Zombies plus Twitter equals The media doesn’t know what to do

Seen this yet?  http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters/us_flu_communicators.html Well, if you have or haven't, I think there is a lesson to be learned here.  In today's world, all of us are swimming in oceans of data, but in reality, we [+]

EHR Stimulus Tour

I have seen a couple of these come across my desk.  It seems that a group of health vendors have put together a tour to discuss EHR stimulus dollars.  Given the companies involved, I am [+]

Communication makes Health Care go around. Use it wisely.

Communication systems in health care have evolved along with the rest of the world.  However, we have tended to use them differently than many other industries.  We have often focused on single use benefits than [+]

Interesting Stem Cell Research

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Mayo Clinic Health Manager Product Advertisement means game ON!

I am not very big on publishing other people's advertisements. However, this is really a first from what I have seen. I have yet to see anyone actively market their Personal Health Record [+]

Part 2 of Demo of Microsoft Surface and Amalga

I think the questions that really come out at me are: Can the Surface integrate with other EMR systems like Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, etc? Do other PHR systems work with Amalga and Surface out of the box? Can [+]

Microsoft Amalga partner sits down with me for a demo at HIMSS 09

Microsoft was one of the vendors that really stood out at HIMSS09.  The Microsoft Surface has been around sonce 2005, but this is the first year that it is really integrating into the health care [+]
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