Healthcare IT News recently saw down with healthcare decision makers Michael Manning, MD Medical Director, Murphy Medical Center, Greg Wolverton CIO ARcare, and James L Holly, MD CEO, Southwest Texas Medical Associates to share their insight on what they hope the healthcare system will look like in 2017.
Hopefully by 2017, there will be more interopoerability in all aspects of healthcare delivery and we have made progress on creating a more patient centered
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Guest Post: 3 Key Takeaways from 2011 mHealth Summit
The following is a guest post written by Charles Huang discussing his 3 key takeaways from attending this year's mHealth Summit that was held in Washingon D.C. earlier this month that was recently posted on his blog:
At the beginning of December, the 2011 mHealth conference took place in Washington DC. For conference attendees, it was a chance to be lost amongst thousands of others in the cavernous Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center (sans WiFi or conference supplied beverages,
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Video Case Study: How Telehealth Can Eliminate Barriers to Care
The following video demonstrates how telehealth, including videoconferencing, can cost-effectively improve access to care for a high-medical-need population that is socially isolated, geographically dispersed, and experiences language and cultural barriers to care. In this project, specially trained pharmacists provided medication therapy management services to nearly 100 older Cambodian-Americans.
Results
Pharmacists identified 604 potentially harmful medication-related problems (MRPs).
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Infographic: How Important is Protecting Patient Privacy?
Infographic highlighting the importance of protecting patient privacy
Patient privacy continues to make headlines in the news signifying an epidemic in security breaches in healthcare organizations increasing over 32%in the past year costing an estimated 6.5 billion annually according to a recent study by Ponemon Institute. On Wednesday, a class action suit has been filed seeking as much as 16 million in damages for a data security breach involving the electronic medical records of 16,000
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5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Security Breaches
5 ways healthcare organizations can reduce occurrences of security breaches to combat the growing epidemic of security breaches in healthcare.
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Guest Post: 4 Key Takeaways from RSNA 2011
This guest post was provided by Mariano Maluf, Chief Technology Officer of GNAX:
Chicago is America’s windy city. And nowhere was this more obvious than at RSNA’s 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting. Lakeshore Drive was even shut down because of the high winds and Lake Michigan surges.
Less literal but equally real, within the walls of McCormick Place another strong wind was blowing: that of technology in transition. Over 50,000 attendees welcomed trends and terms such as cloud,
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Video: Evolving Imaging Practices: Image Sharing, Analytics and the Cloud
Learn how you can use imaging solutions to help accelerate the cycle of care, improve the patient experience and shave costs out of the system, in this discussion by a panel of renowned experts from the 2011 Microsoft Connected Health Conference in this hour long video.
Topics of discussion include EMRs integration, image sharing, analytics, and the cloud.
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Infographic: App Overload for Doctors
Infographic that displays how many apps doctors download creating app overload for doctors
With smartphones and apps quickly gaining popularity in healthcare, there are now thousands of medical apps available in the app store – making it tough for doctors to find the ones they need most for treating patients. To illustrate this app overload challenge faced by doctors today, Epocrates conducted research on this and created an infographic looking at the numbers – how many apps doctors download,
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2011 HL7 Interface Technology Survey Results
Core Health Technology's 2011 HL7 Interface Technology Survey Results present a current view of the HL7 market-specifically regarding HL7 technologies, healthcare organizational priorities, and their organizational preparedness for future integration challenges. The results are presented from three different prespectives- CIOs, managers, and HL7 professionals.
Did you know:
42.7% of CIOs and 48.9% of Managers state their interface engine has capability they are not using?
58% of CIOs
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Video: How to Prevent Costly Healthcare IT Security Breaches
It's every CIO's worst nightmare: a laptop computer with patient health information goes missing or is stolen. Not only does this breach jeopardize your patients' privacy, it almost always means costly penalties for your organization.
Now, thanks to advancements in anti-theft technology, many CIOs have enabled laptops to protect themselves in these types of situations. The latest anti-theft technology triggers an automatic remote lockdown scenario, or "poison-pill," to keep patient data safe
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