Dan Diamond ran a triage unit in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and was in-country immediately after the earthquake struck Haiti. The difference between available mobile technologies for each disaster was like night and day, but there are still some apps and tools he said would be really helpful.
Allscripts is partnering with the Singapore Ministry of Health's IT organization to develop new medication, mobile and analytic systems for the country's health systems and possibly providers elsewhere in Asia.
Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Diana Manos on three days of Capitol Hill hearings to explore the balance between innovation and regulation of mobile health apps, devices, and issues.
A project linking patients, caregivers and Alzheimer's research centers won the Department's third annual innovation award, as Secretary Sibelius and a Google HR guru talked about the need for collaboration in such a large organization.
"The HIT sector really took off in 2012," according to the author of a new report finding that the realm more than doubled in investment activity over 2011.
CCA's 5 components of population health, why campaign ploys don't apply to healthcare, payers not prepared for ICD-10, and the House votes to repeal ACA. Again.
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.
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.
Recounting an exercise in which medics tested handhelds against tablets for documenting patient care downrange. Hint: Android devices were popular, but posed some problems.
Yesterday we highlighted testimony from a recent meeting of ONC’s Meaningful Use working group in which stakeholders described the difficulties some providers are having meeting the MU requirements.