Are the iPad’s Days Numbered in Healthcare?
Remember when the iPad arrived on the healthcare scene? As a non-enterprise device, it snuck in the back door—often in doctors’ pockets—and redefined user expectations in the process. Health IT...
View ArticlemHealth Summit: Eyes on Funding Trends
For the past four years, I’ve watched thousands of health and technology influencers, developers, policy makers, business leaders, and others pack themselves into the mHealth Summit for a glimpse at...
View ArticleEnabling Synchronous Content Streams
Mobile devices are fostering greater collaboration at the point of care and helping to drive down health care costs. But as the ACO model takes hold—shifting the provision of care from acute care...
View ArticleWinning the Change Management Battle: A Tale of Health IT Success
As a HIMSS Level 7 facility, Deaconess Health System knows all about Big Data. For the past couple years, the Evansville, Ind.-based health care organization has been implementing systems that would...
View ArticleSafeguarding PHI on Mobile Devices (and Media)
Along with reducing paperwork, easing administrative burdens, and generating some cost savings, the rise of electronic health records (EHRs) in health care settings has significantly increased the risk...
View ArticleThree Key Steps to Building an HIT Supported ACO
CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, N.J., recently partnered with a group of hospitals to form an accountable care organization (ACO). If their application is accepted, the fledgling ACO will get...
View ArticleBYOD Trend Affecting Healthcare and Patients
The consumerization of mobile devices poses unique challenges for healthcare CIOs, who are tasked with maintaining security, streamlining productivity gains expected of the industry’s growing mobile...
View ArticleTransitioning Platforms: Why CIOs Should Be Looking at Windows* 8
As expected, HIMSS13 is abuzz with new offerings. Mobility, of course, is a central focus, and while devices and apps should garner a good deal of any healthcare CIO’s attention, don’t overlook the...
View ArticleTablets and Software Upgrades: A Pragmatist’s View
Yesterday, I wrote that healthcare CIOs should take a closer looks at Windows* 8, given the operating system’s flexibility and improved functionality in dual compute model environments (keyboard and...
View ArticleFacilitating Better Communications Among Clinicians
Much of the chatter coming out of HIMSS13 hinges on the concept of integration. Specifically, this idea that integrating physicians with other community care givers will naturally foster a better, less...
View ArticleEMR Swap to Improve POC Collaboration?
Count Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) among those healthcare organizations making major health IT changes in an effort to foster more meaningful collaboration at the mobile point of care. I had...
View ArticleStreamlining Communications with an In-House App
For the past 12 years or so, San Francisco-based MedAmerica has relied on a web portal to keep doctors in touch with other physicians and clinical staff. More recently, as the BYOD trend has helped...
View ArticleAre the iPad’s Days Numbered in Healthcare?
Remember when the iPad arrived on the healthcare scene? As a non-enterprise device, it snuck in the back door—often in doctors’ pockets—and redefined user expectations in the process. Health IT...
View ArticlemHealth Summit: Eyes on Funding Trends
For the past four years, I’ve watched thousands of health and technology influencers, developers, policy makers, business leaders, and others pack themselves into the mHealth Summit for a glimpse at...
View ArticleTablets in the Health IT Enterprise: What to Consider
As mobile device and app makers focus their attention on improving user experience and workflow issues, healthcare organizations continue to strive for the best mix of technology suitable for the...
View ArticleOn the Health IT Horizon: The Rise of 2 in 1 Mobile Devices
I was expecting the arrival of 2 in 1 mobile devices to make more of a splash in the healthcare space. These slick devices, which combine a tablet and a laptop, started popping up in healthcare...
View ArticleTouch Computing: Increasingly Relevant to Healthcare
It's always tempting to get caught up in the promise of the next, new thing. Gestural computing and 3-D printing spring to mind as recent examples, as well as a variety of wearable tech gadgets that...
View ArticleHealth IT Interoperability Pulling Ahead?
I’m not what you’d call a huge fan of horse racing, but I’ve watched enough Triple Crown events to know how exciting it can be when a dark horse contender suddenly breaks from the pack and spurs the...
View ArticleSecuring PHI in the Mobile Age
Mobile devices have become go-to tools for clinicians because they enable ready access to the right information when and where it’s needed most, improving patient care and lowering healthcare costs in...
View ArticlemHealth: Drawing Nearer to Patient Engagement
Transitioning the burden of health care from the system to the patient has raised many questions along the way, not the least of which centers on what roles mobile devices ultimately will play in...
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