Stanford surgical students set sights on Google Glass
Stanford University's medical school plans to start using Google's wearable computer, Glass, to help train students in surgery. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - July 31, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Google's next frontier: What it means to be healthy
Google has launched a new project, dubbed the Baseline Study, that seeks to develop a greater understanding of what it means to be healthy. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - July 28, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Standalone wearables coming this year, AT&T exec says
The most successful wearable devices will be ones that can work without a phone, and AT&T will have at least one of them by the end of this year, the man who manages the carrier's partnerships said. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - July 10, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors' Social Security numbers
The Social Security numbers of roughly 18,000 California physicians and health-care providers were inadvertently made public after a slip-up at health insurance provider Blue Shield of California, the organization said Monday. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - July 8, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Mobile health device market to grow 8X to $42B
A new report shows venture capital funding and clinical mobile health applications will push the mobile device market to extraordinary highs by 2023. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - July 3, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Brain-decoding chip, algorithms give quadriplegic movement again
Thanks to a computer chip, algorithms and nearly 10 years of research, a 23-year-old quadriplegic moved his fingers and hand with the power of his own thoughts. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - July 2, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Salesforce.com, Philips join forces for health care IT
Salesforce.com is teaming up with Philips to develop a software platform to connect patients with health care in a much faster and easier way than is usually possible today. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 26, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Montana data breach exposes 1.3 million personal records
Up to 1.3 million records, including health care and bank account information, may have been exposed after a server at Montana's public health department was hacked in May, the state said Tuesday. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 25, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Verizon's videoconferencing offers virtual doctor visits via smartphone
If you've ever been sick with a cold or the flu while traveling, Verizon's new videoconferencing technology could help you reach a doctor for a quick consult from a smartphone or tablet. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 25, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Oracle says Oregon governor spiked Obamacare site for political reasons
The battle between Oracle and Oregon officials over the state's Cover Oregon health insurance exchange site is raging on, with the vendor now claiming the exchange was functional in February, but Governor John Kitzhaber decided to dump it for political reasons. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 24, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Healthcare Cloud Use Prevalent, Poised to Spread, HIMSS Says
Survey results from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's analytics arm says more than 80 percent of organizations use cloud services, primarily to host apps and data. Concerns remain, particularly around security and uptime, but most users seem optimistic. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 20, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
AMA says telemedicine could improve access, quality of care
The American Medical Association today voted to approve a list of guiding principles for ensuring the appropriate coverage of and payment for telemedicine services. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Graph databases find answers for the sick and their healers
A novel form of database that focuses on connections between entities, called a graph database, is finding a home in the health care industry. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 7, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Making the Clinical Data Warehouse Relevant Again
The clinical data warehouse used to represent what was wrong with healthcare IT: An incomplete data source that was siloed to boot. But Texas Children's Hospital has turned its data warehouse into a valuable tool for clinical and operational analytics. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - June 3, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
CIOs Join Forces to Fight Cancer With IT
Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson describes the profoundly hopeful and uplifting story of how informal coalitions of CIOs from some of the country's leading medical institutions are crossing boundaries to collaborate in the fight against cancer. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 31, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
