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Secretary Sebelius at the Consumer Health IT Summit

Secretary Sebelius speaks at the Consumer Health IT Summit. She discusses how to empower patients to be partners in their health and care using health IT to access their health information. Health IT Week celebrates [+]

YourNurseIsOn.com continues to be awesome

YourNurseIsOn.com has been selected to kick off the Health 2.0 Week in San Francisco late this September.  YourNurseIsOn.coms’s “secret sauce” is the patent-pending 2-way communications process that provides staff with the ability to accept/reject the shift [+]

2011 Release Hospital EHR Adoption Database

A Tool for Strategic Planning and Research The EHR database is used as a foundation for national research and government studies (e.g., Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) and as a planning tool [+]

Medical Records as a Service. Will health care facilities really go for it?

Dr. Robert Wah, chair of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees and chief medical officer at CSC discusses healthcare as-a-service. For more information, visit www.envisiongovit.com. I really like the concept of medical records as a [+]

HP Healthcare is NOT DEAD!

HP threw the PC world into a loop two weeks ago when they said they intended to shutdown their mobile device lines and sell their PC division to the highest bidder.  This announcement made mouths [+]

New tech attempts to improve care for heart attack victims

Physio-Control has recently announced availability of the ReadyLink 12-Lead ECG device, a new solution designed to improve care for heart attack patients and speed time to treatment. ReadyLink gives prehospital basic life support (BLS) providers [+]

A summary look at the Accountable Care Organization and the technology they need

Health care delivery has evolved in the past few years along with the demand of new medical technologies and more sophisticated treatment options. However, lapses in quality as well as skyrocketing costs have resulted to [+]

Qualcomm Wireless Health Challenge is quite cool

Qualcomm has started a wireless health challenge that makes you wonder how other non-medical organizations are engaging their staff in health.  I like the scale they are using.  I use it myself.  This video marks [+]

Curaspan Health Group® Unveils DischargeCentral®, the New-and-Improved eDischarge™ Software-as-a-Service Application

Curaspan Health Group (www.curaspan.com), the company that transformed discharge planning more than 10 years ago with the industry-leading eDischarge application, today introduced another innovation: DischargeCentral. The new DischargeCentral software-as-a-service (SaaS) application combines the ease of [+]

Cleveland Clinic makes the Wizard of Oz meet Star Trek

Cleveland Clinic is taking robotic and mannequin training to a whole new level. Call it The Wizard of Oz meets Star Trek. Technologically sophisticated mannequins, robots with 3-D vision, and computers that can “feel” are part [+]

Mayo Clinic Opens new experimental “non-competitive” facility for primary care

Mayo Clinic's newest facility is gathering some attention.  They have opened a "lab" for primary care experimentation in one of the largest malls in the world, the Mall of America, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The internationally known [+]

The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology discusses our opportunities

Health care providers might appreciate the benefits of Electronic health records (EHRs) but are unsure where to start. ONC's Regional Extension Centers (RECs) help providers make the transition to EHRs through a streamlined and practical [+]

Ways to Improve Health Care with Simple Cell Phones

The wide use and proliferation of cell phones is very evident in recent years.  In fact, it has evolved from being a luxury item into a basic necessity because of   the convenience that it offers. [+]

AARP study shows $450 Billion per year in health care done in the home

I was extraordinarilly surprised when I saw this.  I knew that many Americans are providing home care for their elderly parents or disabled spouses, but I never dreamed it would be this wide spread.  A new [+]

A Physician’s View of the Change from Paper to EMR

The following article was written by a guest Physician writer. Even though the source is known, the physician has asked to submit anonymously.   Physicians like any other professionals, have to deal with record-keeping and other related [+]

With health care in America, comes health care insurance. Core Components of a Health Insurance Exchange

Health care insurance is a core component of care in the US. We have heard a lot about health information exchanges, but we have heard very little about the health insurance exchanges. Dan [+]

Electronic Health Records, Why do you care?

If you are reading my blog, you probably don't need to be convinced in the benefits of EHRs and EMRs.  That being said, it is always nice to have another tool in the bin to [+]

Are you seriously still using a pager? Yes? Let me guess, you work in healthcare?

Healthcare has some awesome technology, but pagers aren't one of them.  It still boggles my mind how many facilities I have seen that still have a text pager on the hip of their physicians and [+]

The skills you need to get into Health Information Technology

The University of Illinois Chicago has a Health Information Technology program (no, I didn't get my degree from them) that has been drawing some attention.  In the video linked below Sanford Rose Associate Bonnie Siegel discusses [+]

Interesting Technology for Long Term Care

The main target of Technology for Long Term Care is the provision of essential information on technology products in order to improve the quality of life and care among people in long term care arrangements. [+]

Isansys Launch LifeTouch Multi-function Body Monitor

IsansysLifecare Limited, the provider of complete real-time physiological patient data services and systems, today announces the launch of the LifeTouch HRV011 a radical new addition to its Lifecare Platform. The LifeTouch is an intelligent cardiac monitor that adheres to [+]

Benefits of Healthcare Business Intelligence (BI) in Technology Usage

In an increasingly competitive world, using new technology smartly, customers can make or break the success of your company. Medical sectors are facing a lot of global challenges today. The use of newest technology greatly [+]

A 3yr old girl could use your help

After Lilli was born, it took 21 months of medical confusion and speculation for doctors to conclude Lilli had Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS), a developmental disorder that affects the 17th chromosome. SMS causes [+]

iPhones Adopted by The Nebraska Medical Center

Nurses and clinicians at The Nebraska Medical Center, the state’s largest health care facility, will soon be using iPhones to improve their communication and increase efficiency, thanks to Voalté’s first-of-its-kind integrated communication solution. The Nebraska [+]

Emerging Home Patient Monitoring Technologies

The area of health care is no longer contained between the four corners of   health and medical institutions and hospitals. Health and clinical issues as well as patient management are now more accessible even as [+]
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