Mobile/ Wireless

 
HIMSS takes over mHealth Summit
February 16, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
With HIMSS12 next week, the organization announced on Thursday that it is subsuming the budding mHealth Summit.
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ONC kicks off app contest to give disabled patients access to EHRs
February 14, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
As HIT is not always as accessible for people with disabilities as it is for others, ONC is offering $60,000 grand prize for the best mobile application to address that problem.
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mHealth tools will monitor millions, reduce costs
February 6, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Cardiac outpatient monitoring leads the field, as insurance reimbursement in the U.S. market plays a key role, Juniper report said.
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Data breaches reached 'epidemic' status last year
February 1, 2012 | Diana Manos
Redspin's annual report cites unencrypted portable devices, lack of PHI oversight as main drivers of the nearly 100 percent spike in health data breaches in 2011.
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VA taps DSHI for ER mobile triage
January 31, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
VA Employee Innovation Competition sparked some 6,5000 ideas, and DSHI was one of the big winners.
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3 Beacon communities to kick off Txt4health
January 27, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
Text-messaging program to help participants assess diabetes risk, manage health, connect with care resources.
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ONC contest seeks tool to schedule post-discharge appointments
January 26, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
ONC opens developer challenge for application to schedule follow-up appointment and post-discharge testing before a hospital leaves the hospital, Mostashari said.
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ONC reveals mobile data best practice initiative
January 26, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced Privacy & Security Mobile Device Project, and said it intends to "bring awareness and understanding" of mobile security issues to the clinical sector.
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IOM, NEA kick off health crowdsourcing contest
January 25, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
"Go Viral to Improve Health" challenge aims to tap students with $18,000 in prizes for creating mobile apps based on health data.
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How to turn a tablet into a security tool
January 12, 2012 | Marcus Ranum
Rather than merely allowing the wave of mobile devices to crest into a data breach nightmare, iPads and other tablets can actually be harnessed for security purposes. Think: Technical controls.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 3: Stategic checklist for connectivity
January 9, 2012 |
Brian Ahier
Kim Lamb
Reliable, high-speed bandwidth is a foundation of health information exchange. The Oregon Health Network, an FCC Rural Healthcare Pilot Program, shares five how-tos of building connectivity needs into an overall HIT strategy.
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7 health data privacy and security trends to track in 2012
January 6, 2012 |
Rick Kam
Christine Arevalo
With cloud computing on the rise and mobile devices proliferating, look for more data breaches, and with a bigger impact than year's past.
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Ten Things to Ask Your SAAS Vendor Before Entering the Cloud
October 12, 2011 | White Papers
This whitepaper provides tips based on best practices gathered through analysis of the industry and direct experience with thousands of cloud deployments—including tips from CIOs, program and project managers, directors of IT, engineers, developers, and administrators in various industries and various size companies
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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The Power of User Virtualization: Meeting Meaningful Use, Optimizing IT and Clinical Productivity
August 23, 2011 | White Papers
Transformative changes such as healthcare reform mandates, advanced stages of meaningful use criteria and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets require healthcare providers’ IT assets to be flexible, scalable and interoperable in order to respond. Learn how user virtualization provides the ability to react quickly while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
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Mobility and Population Health: A Clinical Case Study on the Role of Mobile Devices-The mCare Project
March 29, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Mobile devices are playing a greater role in tracking, maintaining, and improving population health. In this eSeminar, we will explore the case study of mCare, a secure, bi-directional, HIPPA compliant messaging system that allows for information to be sent to Military Service members utilizing their personal cell phones. The mCare system has sent over 45,000 secure messages to over 485 soldiers across 28 states since May of 2009.
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HIE services added to social media platform
January 12, 2012 | Jeff Rowe
The standard observer of all things HIT might be forgiven for focusing almost exclusively on EHRs.
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5 trends that will shape ICD-10 implementation in 2012
December 30, 2011 | Carl Natale
I hate making predictions. Especially when they're about the future. But since I listed the top stories of 2011 and how they affected ICD-10 implementation, I need to explain their implications in 2012.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 30, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
No rest this season in the federal hit realm as CMS and OIG talk ACOs, fraud. A flurry of reflections, predictions, reasons EHRs need to mature, and the top mobile searches of 2011.
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Health care predictions for 2011: How'd we do?
December 23, 2011 | David Williams
A year ago I asked my Twitter followers to make health care predictions for 2011. Several were brave enough to go on the record, and I organized their thoughts into four themes.
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Twitter recap: End of the year health IT social media chat
December 16, 2011 | Kelly Mehler
Today, Dec. 16, marked the last weekly #HITsm TweetChat, conducted by HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards). The topic determined was an end of the year recap surrounding health IT. Find out what issues were generated through this twitter recap.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 8, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Would you trust Costco and Wal-Mart with your medical records? Why mhealth is a financially-fertile good place to be right now, a bit of welcome relief in the MLR, and the potential for a health 'data spill' that would be worse than what BP did in the Gulf.
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Who moved my cheese ... err ... MC4?
December 6, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
A look at the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care unit's role in the hand-off taking place in Afghanistan and Kuwait.
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The Military Medical Technologies Month that was
December 1, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
A look at what MC4 and some of its partners are undertaking to bring the best of science and technology to medics and soldiers in theater.
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Announcing mHIMSS.org - the online community for mobile and wireless health technology
November 30, 2011 | Eric Wicklund
Today's healthcare landscape is changing dramatically, and one of the driving forces behind that change is the mobile health industry. mHIMSS.org aims to provide the definitive guide to that expanding universe.
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HIMSS Leaders & Innovators excites C-suite execs
November 23, 2011 | Mike Miliard
This past week I had the pleasure of traveling, along with MedTech Media Editorial Director Rich Pizzi, to Amelia Island, Fla. for the inaugural HIMSS Leaders & Innovators conference.
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Mississippi River states get $6M in telemedicine grants
November 21, 2011 | Eric Wicklund
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing more than $6 million to launch telemedicine projects in six states along the Mississippi River.
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#OccupyHealthcare: Driving innovation through social media
November 17, 2011 | Kelly Mehler
Within the past month, the Occupy Wall Street movement has moved to other political regimes. A new website, "OccupyHealthcare.net: Working together for change," has been drawing Americans' attention to the current healthcare system in this country, and how together we can address common concerns.
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