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Archives for February, 2011

HIMSS 2011 – Schwartz Communications Interviews YourNurseIsOn.com

The Schwartz Healthcare IT Practice opened up their digital services to the HIMSS exhibitors with a Twitter contest. In less than 140 characters, companies tweeted why their technology was compelling to @SchwartzPRx and YourNurseIsOn.com was [+]

HIMSS 2011 Allscripts Patient Portal Demo

This demo of the Allscripts patient portal is by Jeff Dolan, Regional Manager, Intuit Health. We got most of it in before the end of the battery life on the camera. Allscripts has their act [+]

MEDecision VP of Product Marketing shares impressions of HIMSS11

Jeffrey Springer, vice president of product marketing, MEDecision shares impressions on the 'sea change' he is seeing at HIMSS11.   [+]

Can Jeopardy’s Watson take healthcare to a whole new level?

I have to say I am not much of a Jeopardy fan.  I actually enjoy all the trivia questions, but for the most part, I am just not excited about the game show.  That changed [+]

5 Promising Health Technologies of 2011

Health technologies are vital partners of medical and health care in bringing about up to date and modern equipment and solutions. So much has changed with the passage of years due to [+]

Voalté Hires Former Ritz Carlton Director of Quality

Voalté, a leading developer of innovative point-of-care communications software on smartphone devices, has announced the hire of Gigi Gray as its new user experience manager. Gray will oversee all facets of the Voalté end-user experience [+]

How Social Media is Booming at HIMSS 2011

Perficient Interviews HIMSS 2011 Social Media Center Managers, Cesar Torres and Cari McLean of HIMSS, to talk about this year's social media trends at the conference, Twitter, hash tags, and tips for getting started in [+]

IBM Watson Presentation at HIMSS11

IBM put together a very interesting presentation at HIMSS11 on how they can integrate the "deep thinking" technology of Watson into healthcare.   [+]

Health IT Trends from #HIMSS11

In the era of EHRs and meaningful use, physicians' practices have a growing number of IT needs. In this video, IT consultant Marion K. Jenkins discuses more about the challenges practices face and [+]

Nuance and IBM Collaborate to Apply IBM’s “Watson” Analytics Technology to Healthcare

The following announcement came from Nuance: I am excited to share with you some more very important news that was announced this morning by Nuance and IBM. Nuance Healthcare announced that it [+]

Looking in the direction of Care Coordination

HealthTechnica's Newest Staff Blogger:  Kate Riley We keep hearing the words. The politicians are talking about it. The Doctors are talking about it. “Care Coordination.” We all understand it means that some kind of change [+]

#HIMSS11: Results of the 2011 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey

Results of the 2011 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey, which will be presented in detail at the Nursing Informatics Symposium at HIMSS11. [+]

Most Wired 2011 is Open

One of the important performance improvement needs for an HIT department is to have measurements that are actionable & comparable.  The Most Wired Survey can give you exactly that.  The Most Wired Survey results are [+]

The Role of the Direct Project in Fast-Tracking Health IT Interoperability

By Rich Elmore and Arien Malec A patient’s health records are no longer confined to a doctor’s office, shelved inside a dusty file cabinet. With the advent of the Nationwide Health Information Network, a framework of [+]

Tell Congress Not to Cut Colorectal Cancer Funding

The spending bill the House of Representatives is considering proposes drastic cuts to colorectal cancer programs. While everyone agrees that budget cuts are needed to reduce the federal deficit, it is up [+]

HEALTHTECHNICA IS BACK ON THE NET!!!!!

After three days of unexpected outage (due to a problem with our usually very reliable web host) we are back on the web!  Of course this was the WORST week to be down.  This is [+]

Healthcare Information Exchange: The Expert Series

Paul Contino, former Vice President, Information Technology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, discusses market directions for health information exchange in this Smart Card Alliance Expert Series interview. Mr. Contino looks at expected [+]

1.7 Million Personal Health Records Stolen

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ~1.7 million personal health records were stolen in December The confidential personal health data of about 1.7 million New York City patients, hospital staffers and others were stolen [+]

Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media launches Health Network Site

The Social Media Health Network is comprised of organizations committed to discovering ways social media tools can be harnessed to improve health care, promote health and fight disease. The network site is a [+]

Heartland Regional Medical Center Selects Voalté iPhones for Nurses

Nurses and other point-of-care workers at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo., will soon be using iPhones to improve their communication and increase efficiency, thanks to Voalté’s popular first-of-its-kind [+]

Valentine’s Wish for Cancer Prevention from Causes.com

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Lab Results via Vermont Health Information Exchange

Health Information Exchange is one of the hot buttons for the health reform act.  Several states are just trying out new systems this year.  We will have to wait and see how these desperate systems [+]

EMR and Other Major Health Innovations in New Zealand

The island country of New Zealand has been gaining global fame in recent years because of the various job opportunities that it provides to migrants. It has been hailed by the Global [+]

Discovering Start-up 2010 – Further Success

Cambridge Temperature Concepts (CTC), one of the winners in the Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups competition at the end of last year, is one of six global finalists in the Qualcomm Ventures’ QPrize™ competition to represent Europe; and has [+]

Phrazer™ Named Edison Best New Product Awards Finalist

Duluth, MN Phrazer™ has been selected as a finalist in the internationally renowned Edison Best New Product Awards™ competition.  Phrazer™, a multilingual medical communication system developed by GeaCom, is one of three finalists in the [+]
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