Mobile/ Wireless

 
VA tests iPhone EHR app for summer rollout
April 26, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
VA demonstrates that it is incorporating more of the latest technology again and not just older versions, VA CIO Baker said.
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Health 2.0 to hold app contest in Virginia
April 9, 2012 |
Mike Miliard
Group to hold code-a-thon in Blacksburg, Virginia, with a $2,500 prize for the winner, and $500 for five runners-up.
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VA set to kick off third Innovation Initiative
April 5, 2012 |
Eric Wicklund
During this iteration, the VA is homing in on four specific areas of care, PTSD among those.
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THUMPr, mHealth Coach win ONC contest
March 29, 2012 |
Bernie Monegain
Wellframe garners third place in the i2 "One in a Million Hearts Challenge," the latest in federal health agencies' ongoing developer contests.
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7 mobile myths, debunked
March 28, 2012 |
Mike Miliard
Mobile application developers, in avoiding these misconceptions, improve their chances of creating apps that are truly useful.
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Todd Park praises galaxy of innovative apps
March 27, 2012 |
Mike Miliard
Speaking at the HxD Conference, new U.S. CTO says that the future holds more good than we can even imagine right now, touts innovation, government data as drivers.
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Smartphones improve Kenyan disease surveillance
March 13, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
Kenyan flu surveillance survey data collected with smartphones was more accurate, faster and cheaper than paper-based data, CDC said.
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HIT crowdsourcing picks up, VCs eye winners
February 27, 2012 |
Government Health IT Staff
As federal agencies and even a pharmaceutical company continue holding health application contests, venture capitalists are keenly watching those awarded funding.
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Pop health app contest winners named at HIMSS12
February 23, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
ONC, Novartis award funding to popEye, Sensei for mobile phone applications geared toward improving population health.
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ONC proposes more resources for privacy campaign
February 23, 2012 |
Diana Manos
Two-year initiative looking to explore consumer attitude and preferences.
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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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Secure Physician Mobile Access to Patient Data with Virtualization
April 11, 2012 |
Government Health IT Staff
Citrix is redefining IT for a new era in Healthcare. For the first time, you can watch a cardiologist who uses Citrix technology and see how Citrix empowers healthcare through virtual computing. See how easy it is to access clinical desktops from anywhere, securely order medications from any computer or device, access real-time info about patients in seconds, go mobile instantly with desktops that follow users, review real time ER caseloads & allocate resources remotely, enable HD face to face telemedicine, use Citrix HDX plug n play to support voice recognition devices to update patient records and secure patient health information (PHI) on devices.
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Gartner Research - Delivering Virtualized Applications with a Simple Converged Fabric
April 11, 2012 |
Government Health IT Staff
As a Healthcare IT manager you are faced with meeting the challenges of providing pervasive wireless to support BYOD initiatives, refining clinical workflows to leverage technology, and incorporating Meaningful Use. This Gartner research can help by providing you with: key research findings from Gartner; the benefits of a unified network fabric; design and collaboration principles for the hyperconverged network of the future and the business benefits of a multivendor, best-of-breed network architecture.
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Better Patient Care: Virtually There
April 11, 2012 |
Government Health IT Staff
This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews, adopting desktop virtualization in the clinical environment. Read the report to find out how desktop virtualization has helped these organizations improve efficiency in the IT department, drive adoption of EMR applications, and support clinician mobility with wireless access, various client hardware options, and single sign-on.
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The State of EHR Adoption: On The Road to Improving Patient Safety
April 11, 2012 |
Government Health IT Staff
Despite being identified as an essential tool to support quality care initiatives, improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, EMR and EHR systems have been stuck in a slow growth cycle. However, pressure is quickly mounting on caregivers to adopt and demonstrate meaningful use of EMR/EHR technology. Healthcare Informatics Research recently interviewed nearly 500 healthcare organizations to shed light on the current state of EMR/EHR adoption. Download this report to discover how organizations are overcoming obstacles to adoption, how they're benefitting from EMR/EHR solutions, and where the industry is going next.
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Ten Things to Ask Your SAAS Vendor Before Entering the Cloud
October 12, 2011 |
Government Health IT Staff
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 12, 2011 |
Government Health IT Staff
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 |
Government Health IT Staff
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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Survey outlines expanding role of social media
April 18, 2012 |
Jeff Rowe
We recently noted the opinion of a Texas doctor who says, in a nutshell, EHR vendors should look to the technology that drives sites like Facebook to make their products more useful.
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Mayo Clinic to host social media conference
April 2, 2012 |
Jeff Rowe
To some healthcare providers, the use of social media outlets to communicate with patients may seem a bit futuristic.
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Prepping for medical data capture on smart devices
March 29, 2012 |
Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
An inside look at the U.S. Army's efforts to decide on an ideal mobile device that will serve as a great platform for accessing multiple resources.
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Twitter reactions: Should there be a tax on those without health insurance?
March 28, 2012 |
Kelly Mehler
We asked our social media followers whether they feel a tax on the people would be the best possible penalty. Is it unconstitutional? Is it fair? Are there other sanctions that seem more realistic? Here's a Twitter recap of their responses.
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Why mHealth matters to me
March 16, 2012 |
Eric Wicklund
It’s been said that physicians will only adopt health IT – namely, electronic medical records – if their workload isn’t disrupted. The same can be said for those suffering from a chronic condition.
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ONC to hold mobile devices roundtable on March 16
March 13, 2012 |
Eric Wicklund
Federal efforts to understand and manage the protection of health information on mobile devices will take an important step forward this week with a roundtable discussion.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
March 1, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: HIMSS12 reflections, initial reactions to meaningful use Stage 2, ICD-11 fire rages on, VA and DoD on VLER and iEHR, mobile health apps, Santorum vs. Romney on healthcare, and more.
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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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