Mobile/ Wireless

 
Deloitte: Docs underutilize various health technologies
May 15, 2013 |
Erin McCann
When analyzed by practice type and age, EHR and meaningful use statistics show lower attestation rates among solo practitioners and physicians over 60 years old. But it's not just EHRs. mHealth use lags, too.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging
May 13, 2013 |
Erin Davis
Greg Billings
When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging
May 13, 2013 |
Erin Davis
Greg Billings
When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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AHIMA offers mHealth app best practices
May 8, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
The association's guide offers several recommendations for maximizing mobile health applications, privacy and security tips among them.
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Telemedicine ROI on stage at ATA
May 7, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
"It's right for the patients," UPMC's Andrew Watson said at the show. And telemedicine is already proving profitable at the health system.
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ATA gets underway in Austin
May 6, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
Change is happening fast as the industry moves from knowing how to do telemedicine, to accomplishing it at scale.
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Vanderbilt opens mHealth app contest
May 3, 2013 |
Erin McCann
The university hopes to entice software developers to create an application that makes patient clinical summaries user-friendly.
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Heading to Austin for ATA? 10 popular attractions
May 1, 2013 |
Eric Wicklund
mHIMSS Editor Eric Wicklund outlines some of the things attendees can do while in the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World."
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Mostashari: 'There will be an ecosystem' around HIT innovation
April 30, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
During a panel discussion Tuesday morning, the national coordinator said he can already see an ecosystem of innovation relative to health IT, while other panelists countered that advancements are being held back.
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Commentary: Better communication for improved outcomes, reduced readmissions
April 26, 2013 |
Andrew Brooks, M.D., F.A.C.S
Andrew Brooks, MD, on the opportunity that a raft of new technologies, and tech-savvy patients, present to hospitals and providers if they can communicate better.
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Perspective: HIE, 'omics' and personalized medicine
April 26, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Associate Editor Anthony Brino on the intersection of genomics, health information exchange and more personalized medicine. Hint: A phone reading hearts rates and other vital signs.
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Big data's promise on stage at TEDMED
April 18, 2013 |
Diana Manos
Personalized medicine, better healthcare and what one presenter referred to as "real wisdom" will all require the collection and use of big data, speakers said at the conference.
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Enabling Data as a Service in Healthcare
April 24, 2013 | On Demand Webinars
Join this webinar to learn how Delphix can accelerate IT projects in healthcare while improving application quality and reducing infrastructure costs.
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Easier Ways for PACS/RIS End Users to Manage Applications and Desktop Environments
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
This report provides information on some of the challenges PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System) end-users face in the healthcare space, and how virtualization and point of care solutions can help address those challenges. In this paper, we discuss what the challenges are and present a strategy of utilizing architecture for PACS/RIS client access, which supports the needs of end users and makes it easier for IT staff to manage applications and desktop environments.
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Palomar Health Choses EXTENSION's Alert Management Software Solution
January 2, 2013 | White Papers
Watch this informative video to learn why Palomar Health - the largest health district in the state of California - chose EXTENSION's healthcare alert management software to connect its nurse call system with the existing EHR and Cisco phones and the impact it has made on care team communication and patient experiences.
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Beyond the EHR: Seamlessly Connecting Nurses and Physicians Using an EHR-Extender (EHR-e)
January 2, 2013 | White Papers
This white paper focuses on how an EHR-Extender (EHR-e) can help hospitals leverage data trapped in the EHR and other clinical systems to establish better care team communication. The result of contextual critical alerts and texts are improved communication and enhanced workflows which makes patients, healthcare staff, administration, and regulators happy.
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Store and Organize All Types of Healthcare Data on a Single Information Infrastructure
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
Information Transforms Healthcare. As a Provider, you collect more data than ever before, from EMRs, patient surveys, home monitoring, to imaging. Collaborating on patient care is difficult at best—there’s so much data, it can’t easily be shared and it’s often incomplete. And new insights can only be derived from relevant information. IT executives can close the gap between maintenance and innovation budgets and deliver clinically relevant, operationally efficient, and fiscally sound solutions for the business. How? With a proven IT infrastructure that allows you to securely take advantage of newly digitized data.
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Medical Imaging in the Cloud
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
The wealth of electronic data generated by the U.S. healthcare system presents a paradox for healthcare providers. Cloud services offers healthcare an attractive solution, helping hospitals scale with ease, better manage resources, and provide fluid access and sharing of medical images across organizations, departments and providers – achieving a connectedness that supports healthcare organizations’ patient care goals. Learn why cloud services may be the solution to your healthcare organization’s medical imaging challenges.
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HIPAA Compliant Hosting
September 25, 2012 | White Papers
Healthcare providers must assure patients the utmost security, confidentiality, and integrity of sensitive information. This means maintaining total HIPAA compliance within their organization, including healthcare IT infrastructure. This white paper elucidates HIPAA compliant IT infrastructure, from physical and environmental controls, to appropriate guidelines between a Covered Entity and data center provider when outsourcing. It also helps clarify key points including service provider qualifications, and why Business Associate Agreements are integral for establishing accountability with partners.
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Case Study: Blood Systems Expands Remote Access Connectivity to Prepare for Disaster
September 9, 2012 | White Papers
For more than 60 years, Blood Systems has been offering its life-giving services throughout the Western U.S. Blood Systems wanted to optimize its network for business value, migrating to the latest WAN services. Read this white paper to learn how Blood Systems increased flexibility and now support business continuity requirements so the nation’s blood supply wouldn’t be interrupted in the face of a natural disaster or pandemic.
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Connect to Care Interactive Map: Public Sector Healthcare Innovation
August 14, 2012 | White Papers
This interactive map will show you how innovative technologies can enable public sector healthcare to improve patient access to healthcare, transform the clinician experience, improve clinical processes, create new models of care and lower costs. Specifically, this guide will show how clinicians conduct remote consultations, use wireless IP phones and radios, as well as how patients can connect to clinicians for home monitoring.
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BYOD in Healthcare Organizations: Top 6 Risks & How to Avoid Them
July 17, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
The BYOD movement has been helpful to health care organizations because it increases productivity and convenience for staff while allowing cost savings for the organization. However, these employee mobile devices need to be controlled securely when used for business reasons. If not, unauthorized users could enter your network and access sensitive data. In addition, if controls are not put into place, these employee devices could provide a risk to your entire infrastructure.
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Securing Mobile Devices in the Business Environment
July 17, 2012 | White Papers
As employees bring their mobile devices to the workplace, while it may increase productivity and reduce cost, it also causes security weaknesses. IBM has authored a white paper, "Securing Mobile Devices in the Business Environment." Download this paper to learn more about mobile security device threats and how to establish a mobile security strategy.
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Saving Lives Virtually – A Day in the Life of Today’s Physician
June 6, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
A new era in healthcare IT has arrived! Even when physicians can’t physically be there, new advances in technology allow them to always “virtually” be on the scene to save a life - whether it’s in the middle of the night or on their day off. In this short video, you’ll watch how a cardiologist prescribes a patient the medicine he needs stat at 2 a.m. You’ll see how easily you can access clinical desktops from anywhere and access real-time info about patients as they’re getting wheeled into the ER. In addition, the video will show you how to go mobile instantly with desktops that follow users, review real-time ER caseloads and enable HD face-to-face telemedicine. Also, watch how this doctor uses voice recognition to update patient records and secure patient health information (PHI) on devices. Don’t you love living in the future?
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Boston Marathon bombing spotlights good and potential bad of social media, mHealth in disasters
April 17, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Social media and mobile health technologies facilitate communication more effectively than even before, but all the information and all the images, as useful as they are, might provoke mental health issues down the road.
An IT Perspective on the Bombings in Boston
April 17, 2013 |
John Halamka, MD
Many reporters have contacted me for an IT perspective on the April 15 bombings in Boston. Within moments of the event, social media became the preferred mechanism for communication and coordination.
Three Day Congressional Hearing Series On Potential Regulations of Mobile Apps
March 21, 2013 |
Brian Ahier
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Tuesday kicked off the “Health Information Technologies” hearing series to discuss the critical role of technology in the health care industry and how federal regulations and taxes could impact patients, hinder innovation, and increase costs for consumers.
Influx of mHealth apps triggering legal questions
February 27, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
New apps, devices or gadgets are bound to bring along legal questions, and not just concerning HIPAA compliance, which likely will make doctors hesitant to prescribe these types of solutions to patients.
Mobile HIX enrollment: A critical asset for ACA success
February 13, 2013 |
Lucy Streett
A large percentage of the Americans that the Affordable Care Act aims to bring into the insurance pool access the Web primarily through their smartphones. For the ACA to achieve its potential, federal and state governments must reach those citizens where it's most convenient for the consumer.
3 ways Pew survey's health trackers collect data
January 29, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that among the ways patients track health data, they're not harnessing IT nearly as much as they could be.
Telehealth and the broadband problem
January 24, 2013 |
Tony Bardo
Remote diagnoses are only the beginning of telehealth's promise. If we can overcome the lack of understanding about broadband.
Windows 8 Could be a Winner in Healthcare
December 27, 2012 |
Brian Ahier
At the recent Dell World conference I had the opportunity to try out a slew of new Windows 8 devices. I was struck by how many potential healthcare applications this new platform and the mobile devices it has spawned will be available.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
December 13, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
ONC's annual meetup, Privacy & Security Forum, mHealth Summit and the industrial revolution ... it's This Week in Government Health IT.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
December 6, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT ... MU payments soar beyond $9 billion in November, mHealth momentum, overbearing legal system, tweaks to Stage 2, ICD-10 regulation myths demystified, and more.
mHealth Summit 2012
December 5, 2012 |
Keith W. Boone
I'm in DC for IHE meetings Tuesday and Wednesday, and giving a session at the 2012 mHealthSummit Wednesday afternoon on Trends on Mobile Interoperability and Standards. I scheduled my travel to attend the IHE educational session held on Monday, but decided to take advantage of by mHealthSummit badge to take look at the conference instead.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
November 30, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This week in Government Health IT ... the mHealth Summit, NeHC's new tool, CDC builds out BioSense, our new cloud computing eBook and more.