Why 2014 should be a very good year for consumer & enterprise health IT
It seems that much of the US is mired in snow and ice this week. Even here in the Pacific Northwest where winter temperatures tend to be somewhat moderate, we have had an entire week of temperatures well below freezing. There’s even a hint of snow in...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - December 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
A few of my favorite (tech) things this Holiday Season
Happy Holidays to all of my HealthBlog readers around the world. I wish you peace, happiness and prosperity in 2014. As I have done each Holiday Season over the past few years, I would like to tell you about a few of my favorite things. Unfortunately...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - December 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Steaming hot Health IT in New Zealand
My colleagues had warned me and sure enough, the moment I got off the airplane in Rotorua, New Zealand, I immediately picked up the rotten egg aroma of sulfur that permeated the air around me. Rotorua is a hot bed for geothermal activity. The city sits...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - November 27, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Health Innovation! At the Centre in Australia
As I wrap up a week-long visit with customers and partners across the East Coast of Australia, it was entirely fitting that we ended up in Melbourne. Melbourne is home to the Australia Centre for Health Innovation located just a block away from the Alfred...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - November 22, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Lifehouse at RPA. Tribute to a inspirational clinician now offering comfort, care and cure for cancer patients in New South Wales, Australia
It is said that behind every great man, there is a great woman. I met one such woman today. Her name is Gail O’Brien. To Australians this story is well known. Dr. Chris O’Brien was a gifted physician and surgeon who specialized in head and neck surgery...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - November 19, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Amazing health tech in surprising places, a report from Baku, Azerbaijan
I f you live in a large, industrialized Western country and you don’t travel much outside your own borders, you may believe that high tech health IT exists only in countries like yours. If so, you’d be wrong. One of the most eye-opening things for me...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - November 13, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Focusing on “Care” as much as “Cure” in health around the world
Upon returning to Redmond from my keynote address at FutureMed in San Diego last week, I held an executive briefing on the Microsoft campus for a group of customers and partners who were visiting from Holland. As a former practicing physician and hospital...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - November 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
A little slice of geek heaven at FutureMed 2013 in San Diego
As I sat in a tufted, white leather arm chair waiting for Dr. Daniel Kraft to introduce me for my keynote, I gazed across the audience. More than 300 of the brightest engineers, developers, academicians, scientists, and clinicians from around the world...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - November 6, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Big plans to improve health IT and healthcare in Alberta, Canada, and people who can pull it off
I’m sitting in an airport lounge waiting for my flight back to Seattle. It has been a whirlwind week of meeting with Microsoft customers and partners and with government leaders across Western Canada. We started our journey close to Seattle in Vancouver...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - October 31, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Oh Canada! Talking healthcare IT with my neighbors up north.
This week I’m traveling through Western Canada with some of my Microsoft worldwide health colleagues who are based in Canada. Along the way, we are meeting with customers, partners and government officials. We started our journey in one of my favorite...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - October 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Exergaming, breaking down the walls of social isolation while improving health
If you think video games are just for kids, tweens and teens, you’d be terribly wrong. That’s how I started a blog post last April examining how senior citizens were improving their health and sense of well being with Kinect, Xbox 360, and Microsoft HealthVault...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - October 25, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Improving clinical workflow and productivity. Are you focusing on the wrong things?
“Despite the billions of incentive dollars injected into the healthcare system to spur health information technology adoption and boost patient engagement , traditional forms of communication between provider and patient still dominate, according to a...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - October 24, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Failing Grade for Health IT in Medical School?
When I was in medical school, and even throughout my residency program, medical records were totally on paper. Patient charts lived in three-ring binders that whirled about on large carousels in the nursing station. Some of those charts were literally...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - October 18, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Vital patient information on the right devices at the right time and place
When I meet with clinical colleagues the conversation quickly turns to electronic medical records (EMR). I guess it would be no surprise to most of my HealthBlog readers that by and large, clinicians have a love-hate relationship with the EMR. While most...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - October 16, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Argh! Slow going on EMR adoption in Puerto Rico
This week I’ve been hanging out at the beautiful El Conquistador Resort in Puerto Rico to meet with customer and partners at the annual conference of the Puerto Rico Hospital Association ( Asociación De Hospitales De Puerto Rico ). I also had the...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - October 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
