Mental health is often overlooked in today’s world of obesity and chronic disease. Even though the physical body is essential to health, we must not forget to take time for mental health. In this episode, host Shawn Riley visits with health care expert Paul Bartemes to talk about taking care of our mental health.
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Two of the nation’s largest healthcare information networks, Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, and Surescripts(R), The Nation’s E-Prescription Network(TM), today announced an agreement to pioneer the formation of an integrated service to make laboratory and prescription information broadly and easily accessible to physicians. The collaboration is [...]

Demonstration of remote patient monitoring at the HIMSS 2010 conference. Telemedicine allows skilled professionals to monitor patients’ vital signs even while the patient – or the caregiver – is at home or another remote location.

Great compliments to @jchristenson for sending in this Voalte video from #HIMSS10! We have been getting videos from multiple people at HIMSS10. We are posting them as we get them uploaded. Thanks to Trey Lauderdale for helping make this demo possible.

Voalte Demo from Jamie Christenson on Vimeo.

1 Million knee replacements in the US per year show how important medical technology is for the metal working industry: Douglas Sellers, CEO of SellersMedia and Co-Organizer of the “Metal meets Medical” Trade Forum explains how important it is for the metal industry to concentrate on this fast growing sector.

There are many jems at #HIMSS10 in Atlanta this year.  One of them that you should make sure not to miss is “Your Nurse is On”!  The folks of http://www.yournurseison.com/ have created a call in system for your nurse pools.
In the simplest terms, your facility is able to apply union rules and state staffing rules [...]

Many MANY of our readers and followers are attending HIMSS this year. Several folks have volunteered to take videos of the experiences and festivities for me as I am not able to attend this year. We are looking for vendor discussions and descriptions of their applications. We are looking for a couple of [...]

Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, announced today the availability of an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalté communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices. This integration facilitates the orchestration of voice, alert, and text communications by leveraging the flexibility of the [...]