On the road for Clinical Mobility
I’m writing this today from Sydney, Australia. This past week I’ve been working with my teammates here on something we’re calling the Clinical Mobility Roadshow. On each of the last four days we’ve been hosting a breakfast event in a different city. We...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - September 27, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Foggy brain? Get a forecast in the cloud.
Do you have trouble remembering proper names? Do you start to say something and then stop because you can’t remember what it was you were going to say? Are you always misplacing your car keys or eyeglasses? Do you walk across your house into another room...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - September 22, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Veterans and mHealth, a patient engagement strategy that makes a whole lot of sense
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has been taking it on the chin of late with allegations (and proof) of delayed appointments and care at some facilities, and charges that these delays have led to poor outcomes and even death. From what I can tell...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - September 12, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
How to clean your Surface Pro 3 for home, hospital or clinic
Here on HealthBlog, I have unabashedly shared my enthusiasm for the Surface Pro 3 . I first wrote about the device on May 29th in a post titled Just What the Doctor Ordered—Surface Pro 3 . I wrote that article having spent literally just a few minutes...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - September 10, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Interoperability of Electronic Health Data. Is it time to herd unicorns in a new direction?
While most of the Information Technology world was focused on Apple today (OK, even I had one monitor tuned to their live stream), those of us who pay most of our attention to the enterprise Health IT community were reading the latest news on such mundane...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - September 9, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
What we can learn about healthcare and risks from the passing of Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers made us laugh. Joan Rivers made us cry. At times, Joan Rivers made us cringe. Today, we are saddened to learn of her death—a death brought on, perhaps prematurely, due to a complication of what we are told was minor surgery. With deepest respect...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - September 4, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
3 possible future scenarios for information technology’s role in health & healthcare
Microsoft recently released a blog post on the company’s Security Blog that details three possible scenarios or views of the world and cyberspace in 2025. The three possible scenarios are; Peak, Plateau, and Canyon. Here’s how each scenario is defined...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - September 2, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Medical image archiving in the cloud? Consider the 4 S’s
One of the most compelling arguments for storing digital data in the cloud is medical imaging. It is estimated that data from medical imaging (digital x-rays, CT, MRI, PET scans, etc.) already accounts for about 30 percent of the world’s total data storage...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - August 28, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
The second wave is coming. Will your EMR make the grade?
As I noted in last week’s post, I’ve recently returned from a Healthcare Executive Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., sponsored by McKesson . Among some of the other invited keynote speakers at the event was Adam Gale, CEO of KLAS . For those of you...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - August 26, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Healthcare leaders navigate tectonic changes but must never lose sight of caring and hope in human healing
The past few days I’ve been in the nation’s capital with senior healthcare executives from some of America’s largest and best known hospital systems and clinics. I was honored to be asked by the event sponsor, McKesson , to deliver a keynote address to...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - August 21, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Better Health IT. Is sending docs to tech school the answer?
An article in Information Week caught my eye this morning. It reviews a new program offered by Texas A&M with support from Dell to help medical students and other healthcare professionals “come to terms with the ways technology is changing their...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - August 14, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
A Windows 8 app for telemedicine by the numbers
You know, and I know, there’s nothing especially new or exciting about telemedicine. From a technology standpoint, the capability to care for patients remotely via “telemedicine” has been around practically since the invention of television. What has...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - August 11, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
What healthcare could learn from a technology company
Healthcare is very different from most other industries. It is fragmented, conservative, highly regulated, and hierarchical. It doesn’t follow most of the usual business rules around supply and demand or consumerism. An important aspect of my role at...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - August 8, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
A “take over” of healthcare…… really?
I try very hard not to come off too much as a fan boy here on HealthBlog. Yes, I work for Microsoft . But I also have a lot of respect for many other technology companies that are doing good work in the healthcare industry. The past few months,...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - August 5, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
There’s no business like the healthcare business, like no business I know
Irving Berlin eat your heart out. There’s no business like the healthcare business or so it seems from a recently published info-graphic in the Wall Street Journal. Where are the jobs in America? You guessed it, healthcare. But is that a healthy thing...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - July 30, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
