Technology

Video: Telehealth Pilot Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

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Packard Children's is partnering with Cisco Systems to meet the needs of families in our community and beyond. The video shown below is an overview of their  innovative telehealth network promises to bring our world-class care to the patients, rather than the other way around. Given the recent Supreme Court Ruling on the individual mandate, Telehealth is one of the key areas that will spur innovation as a result of the ruling.
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Video: Dr. Oz Talks Technology Challenges in Physician Practices

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Mehmet Oz, MD, host of TV's Dr. Oz Show and a heart surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital, shares his views on current business and technology challenges facing small physician practices. One of the key gaps Dr. Oz highlights is the lack of a repository of trusted health information and the importance of collecting information prior to the patient's visit to enhance the patient care.
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Interview: Understanding Clinical Language Understanding with Carina Edwards, VP Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare

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There is a growing demand to extract structured, "actionable" information from unstructured (dictated) medical documents. Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology allows a computer to read and understand electronic free text and extract data for use in countless applications across the healthcare spectrum.  To understand and learn more about CLU technology, HIT Consultant spoke with Carina Edwards, VP, Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare for a deep dive into: CLU
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3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary

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Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient
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Texting: A Do or Don’t for Doctors?

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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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Survey: Resistance to Workflow as Leading Obstacle to CPOE Adoption

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Imprivata announces the results of its 5th annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare reporting resistance to workflow changes as the leading obstacle to CPOE adoption Imprivata, the leader in secure access and collaboration for healthcare,  announced this week the results of its fifth annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare. According to this year’s findings:
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