According a recent Johnson & Coker report, 80% of doctors use smartphones. In addition to making calls and using apps, docs are using their smartphones to take advantage of one of today’s most convenient forms of communication: the text message.
Unlike so much about healthcare – treatment plans, wait times, the reimbursement cycle – texting is quick. And for doctors, as for everyone with thumbs, texting offers a simple way to communicate that doesn’t require making a call, writing down a
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Infographic:Connected Health: The Drive to Integrated Healthcare Delivery
The following infographic created by Accenture highlights the journey of connected health and how it aims to connect all key areas of healthcare delivery through the interoperability of information and technology.
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Dr. Hon Pak, CEO of Diversinet, Talks Mobility for Care Coordination
In part 1 of this interview/podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Dr. Hon Pak , CEO of Diversinet about the following:
Diversinet's strategic direction of powering care coordination through mobility
Army's mCare program
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The WiFi Revolution in Healthcare IT
Written by Irene Froehlich, Director of Marketing at Dr First discussing the WiFi revolution in healthcare IT
Healthcare is on the verge of a revolution in mobile technology thanks to WiFi.
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Infographic:Mobile Technology in Healthcare
The following infographic from healthcare solutions firm Healthx highlights the impact of mobile technology in healthcare. Results show that there will be 44 million m-health app downloads by the end of 2012, which will rise to 142 million by 2016.
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Digital Healthcare Where Are We Now? Infographic
Infographic created by Iron Mountain on digital healthcare that highlights the time consuming and expensive task of converting paper records to EMRs that is not addressed by Meaningful Use.
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5 Ways to Leverage SSO (Single Sign On) Technology to Drive Meaningful Use
Last year, the Ponemon Institute, a research firm that advises organizations on data security and privacy, released a report revealing that each hospital loses an average $2 million a year in productivity when clinicians can't access electronic health records.
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Tim Fowler Discusses Bluetooth®-Low-Energy Enabled iPhone M-Health App
Tim Fowler, Commercial Director at Cambridge Consultants’ Wireless Division. Discusses Bluetooth®-Low-Energy Enabled iPhone M-Health App part two interview discussing:
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Interview:Ed Lowell Talks Mobility, Reliability Key to Future of Hospital Patient Care
Guest interview post from our media partners, iHT2'S blog:
Ed Lowell, Director of Technology Infrastructure at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, participated in the panel discussion, “Patient Management Without Walls: Enabling mHealth & Telemedicine,” at IHT2’s Health IT Summit in San Francisco, March 27-28th.
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Interview/Podcast: Tim Fowler Discusses Bluetooth®-Low-Energy Enabled iPhone M-Health App Pt.1
During this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm demonstrated their new Bluetooth low energy (BLE) Blood Pressure Profile iPhone app.
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