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Shawn Riley

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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 [+]

Microsoft Windows 8 is going to put the iPad on its heals

The iPad has opened a lot of eyes in medical world towards the advantages of point of care technology. Quick and nimble, the iPad has been a great opening tool for many physicians. [+]

Mobile technology plus gaming technology equals very cool health tech

  Mobile health (m-health) is coming a long way very quickly. This form of mobile health integrates diagnostic euipment into a Wii game console and uploads your data straight to a mobile phone. Presumably [+]

Major Health Innovations in Australia

Australia has been popularly known as a country that is said to be an emerging giant in terms of economy and commerce. It is also a major provider of jobs and home to various industrial [+]

Will the FDA be monitoring your EHR?

The FDA seems like an odd group to be monitoring and managing EHRs, but there is precedence in them taking on medical technology.  Concerns about patient safety related to electronic health records may be [+]

Modern Healthcare Interviews CMS Technical Director on Medicaid IT program

Thirteen states so far are paying Medicaid subsidies for health information technology. Jessica Kahn, technical director the CMS' Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey and Certification, talks with Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph [+]

Oh crap…. I got promoted again

I have received a couple hundred emails asking where I disappeared to in May.  I only posted up until 5 May and then fell off the electronic Earth.  Well, simply put my personal life had [+]

Five Budding Technologies for ePatients

Information Technology has been rapidly taking over industry after industry and profession after profession. The medical profession is not an exception either. More and more patients are depending for both medical information and treatment through [+]

Free Smart Phone Strategy Webinar for Health Care Execs

Voalté, a leading developer of innovative point-of-care communications software on the iPhone and other smart phone platforms, today announced that it will host a free one-hour webinar on May 19: “3 steps to get your [+]

Intuit Health: A Sleeping Giant with Big Potential

The good folks over at SoftwareAdvice.com sent me a new article they wrote on the possibilities of Intuit Health.  Intuit is best known for the Quickbooks series of applications.  However, they are diving into health [+]

Cheap Drug Beats Pricey One In Treating Vision Loss In Elderly

A government-sponsored study released yesterday compared Lucentis, a drug approved to treat a common form of blindness in the elderly called macular degeneration, to Avastin, a cancer drug eye doctors have been using to treat [+]

Voalté’s Connectivity Enables Hospitals to Leverage Infrastructure

As tablets and smart phones evolve and make their way into hospitals, many health care executives are working to develop a successful mobile-integration strategy. St. Joseph, Mo.-based Heartland Regional Medical Center recently implemented Voalté’s iPhone [+]

Time for a smile! You need a zombie proof home

It seems that the unique fellows of a Polish architecture firm have come up with a zombie proof, all concrete, completely enclosed home for surviving the apocolypse or next tornado alley assault.  See more pictures here [+]
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