82 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed have a fully implemented mobile strategy, indicating a greater level of maturity compared to commercial enterprises, according to a recent RedHat mobile app survey. The online survey of 200 IT decision makers from private, public, life sciences and pharmaceutical healthcare organization in the U.S., France, Germany, U.K. reveals nearly 8 in 10 (78 percent) healthcare organizations are achieving positive ROI from mobile app investments.This positive
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Interview Podcast: Healthcare Security Issues in 2012 with Alan Brill Vol. 2
Healthcare security issues in 2012 Interview with Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll providing his insight on healthcare security issues Recently the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division of Kroll Inc. released their annual top 10 security trends for 2012 highlighting the key areas of risks and trends that will impact how organizations and governments combat and respond to cyber threats. In this interview, Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll dives deeper
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HIMSS Announces its Mobile Counterpart, mHIMSS
Last week, HIMSS announced it's mobile counterpart, mHIMSS a new platform dedicated to progress leadership on technology, security, and implementation surrounding mHealth. The subgroup site, mHIMSS , www.mhimss.org is scheduled for launch the last week in November according to mHIMSS Senior Editor Edna Boone. mHIMSS is an opportunity specificially for HIMSS members to access resources, tools, events, and engagements that embrace progress within the mobile and wireless technologies in
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Video: Mobile Point of Care: Choosing Devices for Collaborative Workflows
Mark Blatt, MD from Intel Health walks you through mobile point of care device selection and shares how to choose the right mobile device for collaborative workflow applications, like video conferencing. In a recent study, More than 50 percent of physicians use a smartphone for work purposes, according to a new study by IT industry association CompTIA. CompTIA’s “Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities” study consisted of online surveys of 350 doctors, dentists and other
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Thought Leadership: Mobile Applications In Healthcare
Mobile Applications in Healthcare: Reaching Out to Patients to Improve Care by Colin Konschak, MBA, FHIMSS and Ram Davaloor, MS, MBA One in five mobile phone owners today owns a smartphone, a trend that is on the rise as consumers increasingly use these devices as handheld computers. Not surprisingly the number of consumer smartphone applications (apps) that were downloaded went from 300 million in 2009 to five billion in 2010. With mobile devices outnumbering personal computers, we
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Catholic Healthcare West inks $4.3M deal with AirStrip
Catholic West, the fifth largest heath system in the US announced today that they have inked a $4.3 million 3 year deal with AirStrip Technologies to use their AirstripOB applications at 32 of it's hospital systems that have birthing facilities. Currently, AirStrip has piloted Airstrip at two of it's California hospitals, Mercy Medical Center and Sequoia Hospital. AirStrip OB Overview The AirStrip OB app gives physicians mobile access to vital patient data in waveform
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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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