Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.
On the face of it, the use of computers to order prescriptions seems like a no-brainer. Who, after all, is capable of reading a physician’s handwriting?
But
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Hospital Cyber-Attacks Could Be Mitigated through Higher Education
Editor's Note: J.A. Eve Krahe, Ph.D. is the dean of graduate programs for University of Phoenix School of Health Services Administration. Prior to joining University of Phoenix, she served as the director of health care innovation programs at Arizona State University.
In his comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2015, Brian Dishman of Intel Corporation described the “constellation” of health data that surrounds each of us. From diagnostic,
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Reimagining Aging: Designing Digital Health Products for Aging Boomers
Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.
The number of adults aged 65 and older will double to nearly 90 million people by 2050. The baby boom generation — the largest in history — aren’t babies anymore. They are taking their unique perspective into their senior years, and that perspective will help shape healthcare for the next several decades.
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Robotic Surgery Is the Future of Medicine
Editor's Note: Richard van Hooijdonk is a futurist and international keynote speaker on future technologies and disruption and how these technologies change our everyday lives. Van Hooijdonk and his international team research ‘mega trends’ on digital health, robotic surgery,drones, the internet-of-things, 3D/4D printing, Big Data and other how new technologies affects many industries.
The human body is a rather untidy place where your organs, bones, flesh, muscles, arteries
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Can Mobile Health Apps Transform Mental Health Care?
Any conversation focused on what’s great about America usually includes a mention of optimism, hopefulness or some variation on the theme.
Americans generally still believe in a brighter future, and especially the ways in which technology can enable that future. But that sense of optimism contains a kernel of potential disappointment when we ask technology to do too much.
Consider the case of mental health care, a profession that faces massive budget shortfalls.
According to Robert
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4 C’s of the Quantified Doctor-Patient Relationship
So far the doctor-patient relationship escaped rigorous quantification, because “relationship” is largely a nostalgic quantity, and because “communications” was deemed to be a reasonable substitute. There are various tools and instruments for subjective measurement of communications with one’s doctor, with the most common being the ubiquitous patient experience survey. However, if we accept a broader definition of the doctor-patient relationship, such as the 6C’s proposed by Dr. Emanuel, a more
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5 Ways Supply Chain is Improving Patient Care Today
Editor's Note: Scott Kelley is the VP of North American Sales & Marketing at healthcare supply chain provider GHX and is responsible for all commercial activities across the healthcare provider and supplier markets in North America. Kelly has spent more than 20 years focused on the issues facing the healthcare issues, addressing the issues of cost and improved operational efficiency while working at companies such as GE Healthcare and Fuji Fuji Medical Systems.
Kelley
The modern,
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Health IT Interoperability: The Battle with Frankenstein Continues…
Victor Frankenstein created his monster with a mix of parts, some chemistry and a touch of alchemy. Depending on how one looks at the fictional creation, although hideous, it was a successful experiment to create an emotional and sensitive creature. As we approach another Halloween night, health IT has its share of cobbled together solutions that for the most part are working, albeit with a great deal of frustration from both patients and physicians and for the most part on a local level. We
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5 Benefits of Geographic Information Systems in Healthcare
Editor's Note: Brittni Brown is a current Masters candidate at the University of Idaho.
There is no doubt that technology has made a significant impact in the medical world. Advancements range from those that improve the comfort of many patients to those that extend their lives. Perhaps one of the most interesting technologies that has emerged onto the scene is one meant to more efficiently address geographical links to illnesses: geographic information systems, or
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RWJ State of Health IT in 2015: Is It Time to Adjust Expectations?
Context and perspective matter.
And it’s often both context and perspective that are lacking from the daily snapshots we get of health information technology, meaningful use, interoperability and the progress we are either making or not making, depending on your perspective.
So I welcome a report like the one the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released last month on the state of health IT circa 2015 in these United States. Subtitled “Transition to a Post-HITECH World,” the
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