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Archives for July, 2010

Social Media has spoken: I am too fat!!

Recently I started my experiment in social media weight loss.  So far, I have had 31 Tweets, 4 Facebooks, and 6 blog posts on the blog page. The overall feedback has been positive and constructive.  It [+]

Mayo Clinic creates Center for Social Media

Mayo Clinic has announced the creation of a Center for Social Media to accelerate application of social media tools throughout Mayo Clinic and spur broader and deeper engagement in social media by hospitals, medical professionals [+]

A Look at the FCC-FDA Medical Technology Showcase

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are seeking comment on converged communications and health care devices' impact on regulation. A public meeting to discuss topics related to this issue was [+]

Hand-carried Ultrasound in a Difficult Medical Environment

In this video, Dr. Randy Baggesen discusses how point-of-care ultrasound technology can ease the difficulties associated with being a primary care physician. Dr. Baggessen points out that bedside medical ultrasound can improve [+]

Crap Process plus technology equals fast crap. Take a moment today to think process improvement

Health systems are continually innovating and have made great strides in the quality of care provided to patients. This may be attributed to advances in medical technology, medicines and medical procedures. However, compelling evidence demonstrates [+]

5 Products To Watch For Radiology PACS

The Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is a set of hardware and software used in the presentation, retrieval, storage, distribution, and management of images. PACS is used for the transmission of electronic images and [+]

Meaningful Use of Health IT: David Blumenthal Opening Statement

David Blumenthal M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, delivers his opening statement at a Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on Efforts to Promote the Adoption & [+]

How will cloud computing help the expansion of health information technology under the HITECH Act?

Massoud Alibakhsh, CEO of Nuesoft Technologies, explains how the HITECH Act of 2009 is expanding cloud computing through EHR adoption and other means. [+]

Picis Joins Forces with Ingenix

Leading Health Information Technology Companies Will Combine to Improve Information Flow and Results in High-Acuity Areas of Hospitals Eden Prairie, Minn. and Wakefield, Mass., — July 22, 2010 —Ingenix, a leading health information technology [+]

Health Decisions Appoints New CTO to Streamline its HD360° Trial Management Platform

Health Decisions (www.HealthDec.com), a full-service clinical research organization (CRO) specializing in adaptive solutions for high-efficiency clinical development, has appointed Bryan Minihan as Chief Technology Officer. Minihan will strengthen Health Decisions’ proprietary HD360° technology platform—the fully integrated CTMS, CDMS and web [+]

The Hottest Chicks in Health Information Technology

Who doesn't like cute chicks :-D My wife has gone nutty for birds and has them all over my house for the next week.  Hopefully they get to go outside to their new bird home next [+]

The Values of Healthpresence

Healthpresence can be defined as health care at a distance that allows patients and doctors to interact even when they are not physically present in the same room. This is possible due [+]

US News & World Report 2010 Best Hospital Rankings

Ohio State is ranked in 11 specialties.  Congrats to OSU! The 11 specialties at Ohio State recognized in this year's rankings were: Cancer: # 26 Diabetes and Endocrine Disorders: # 17 Ear, Nose and Throat: #18 Gynecology: #20 Heart [+]

101 Tips for purchasing your EMR: 59-40 Finance Tips

Whether we like it or not, EMRs have a huge financial impact on the clinical market.  They are expensive, and come with huge upkeep and change costs.  We have been mandated to move to 5010 [+]

101 Tips for purchasing your EMR: 79-60 Quality Tips

Safety and Quality are the two key drivers for EMR adoption. Quality improvement is incredibly difficult, but an EMR gives you a real leg up. You will be able to obtain data that [+]

Bay Area Doctors Build Innovative Employee Wellness Program for Construction Firm

Palo Alto Medical Foundation has come up with an excellent new wellness program that combines traditional occupational medicine with E-health technologies. “For companies like Graniterock, investing in preventive medicine, such as a weight loss and [+]

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Purchasing an Electronic Medical Record / Electronic Health Record (EMR / EHR) is a huge decision for today's medical practice.  Physician adoption is tentative, but has been spurred on over the past few years due [+]

Tele-Pharmacy Advantages and Disadvantages

Tele-pharmacy has been defined by “The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy” as “the provision of pharmaceutical care through the use of telecommunications and information technologies to patients at a distance.” Tele-pharmacy is [+]

Very interesting discussion on 21st Century Tools for Health Leadership and digital divide

Tessie Guillermo, President and CEO of ZeroDivide, discusses how to overcome the digital divide so that all communities have access to new media to improve health. As a large E-Health advocate, I have to continually remind [+]

Infusion Pumps: Making Medical Technology Foolproof

Millions of infusion pumps are used in hospitals, nursing facilities and homes. The pumps regulate the amount of painkillers, antibiotics, chemotherapy, insulin or nutrition delivered directly into a patient's system. The pumps are a great [+]

Technologies of Genomics

Genomics is defined as the study of genes and their functions. It can be broadly divided into the following areas - functional genomics, structural genomics, comparative genomics, epigenomics, and pharmacogenomics. This is aimed [+]

Remote Healthcare Monitoring: The Smart Bandaid

Qualcomm is working with companies like Corventis who have created Piix a Smart BandAid which provides the next-generation ambulatory cardiac monitoring service with beat-to-beat, real time analysis, automatic arrhythmia detection and wireless [+]

My social media experiment in Weight Loss

The following details my social media experiment to lose weight. PROBLEM:  I am too fat. HYPOTHESIS:  I can lose weight via a combination of E-Health home monitoring technology and positive and routine input from my social media [+]

I love social media top 20 lists!

A great new resource has been added to the Internet for medical related social media. Social media could revolutionize the healthcare industry in a number of ways:  healthcare recruitment, hospital marketing, patient/provider communication, public health [+]

Harvard Medical Emerging Technologies Forum: Health IT and the Cloud

Using cloud computing in the health information technology sector makes sense from a cost basis, but it could take years for health-care providers and patients to develop solid confidence in the security of [+]
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