Health Information Technology
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RNs and LVNs What's in your pocket?
IT plays a major role in today's health care environment...
The transformation of medical care with mobile apps has become so ubiquitous that hospitals are discarding conventional devices such as overhead paging, pagers and telephones with smartphones.
USC-KECK nurses will no longer use standard hospital communications gear. In an effort to simplify and improve communications, the academic medical center is rolling out an initiative placing specialized adapted iPhones in the hands of each nurse.
Keck’s IT leaders have ordered 300 “specialty” iPhones for use by the nursing staff. “The idea is to give them one device to do everything,”KECK…
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Beyond EHRs: The future of health IT
New technologies are always popping up in the healthcare industry to improve care and streamline processes. Health IT is a growing field that your hospital will want to pay attention to, beyond the basics like electronic health record systems (EHRs) and telehealth.
The fax of life
Why American medicine still runs on fax machines.
The Health Data Conundrum
THERE’S quite a paradox when it comes to our health data. Most of us still cannot readily look at it, but there’s been an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information.
A Start-Up Suggests a Fix to the Health Care Morass
Aledade’s software addresses that by collecting patient data from a variety of sources, creating a helicopter view. Doctors can see which specialists a patient has visited, which tests have been ordered, and, crucially, how much the overall care might be costing the health care system.
Advancing Health With Information Technology in the 21st Century
In the Information Age, technology is revolutionizing all aspects of society including business, shopping, finance, and entertainment. But health care is the last remaining outpost.
Big Data Is Crucial To The Future Of Our Health-Care System
The epicenter of today's revolution in health care, however, is the collection and review of massive pools of complex patient data (also known as "big data") that allow for more precise, individualized treatment strategies.
Doctors and Tech: Who Serves Whom?
Giving physicians more say in how to incorporate technology into their work is good for patients, and the field.
Harnessing Big Data To Transform Patient Outcomes
Big data has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, promising better patient outcomes and lower costs.
Modernizing Medicine: Health Care in the Information Age
As medical records are digitized and information technology becomes more sophisticated, physicians and hospitals face a rapid transformation in the way they treat patients and track diseases.
Numbers, Numbers and More Numbers
Health-care players are finding that crunching the numbers can pay off in both better care and lower costs.
RNs and LVNs What's in your pocket?
The transformation of medical care with mobile apps has become so ubiquitous that hospitals are discarding conventional devices such as overhead paging, pagers and telephones with smartphones.
Bio-IT World
Bio-IT World provides breaking news, analysis, and opinion on enabling technologies that drive biomedical research and drug development, with emphasis on predictive biology, drug discovery, informatics, personalized medicine, and clinical trials. Bio-IT World focuses on the technologies deployed and strategic decisions made by companies in these areas, and their impact on performance.
Healthcare IT Guy
The Healthcare IT Guy Shahid's healthcare IT, EMR, EHR, PHR, medical content, and document managment advisory service. Enjoy.
Healthcare IT News
Healthcare IT News is the industry’s authoritative source covering the people, policy and technology driving next-generation healthcare in the U.S.
HIStalk
I started writing HIStalk in 2003 simply to collect my thoughts about what was going on in the industry, which was important to my IT job. Readership grew slowly, which surprises me to this day, and I had no sponsors. While I can’t afford to make HIStalk a full-time job, it provides me with much of my personal satisfaction, so I contribute a lot of time and energy toward making it as interesting and useful as I can.
Meaningful HIT News
Meaningful News is the new home for professional healthcare IT journalist, Neil Versel. Neil has been covering healthcare IT since 2000, across a wide range of publications. Here’s a list of some of the current and past publications where you can find Neil’s work:
MedCity News
MedCityNews.com is one of the fastest-growing sites in healthcare and life sciences. It is the leading destination covering the business of healthcare and life science innovation for decision makers in the healthcare industry.
medGadget
Medgadget is an independent publication edited and published by a group of MDs and biomed engineers.
eHealthNews.eu
The First European eHealth News Portal.
Health Informatics Forum
A Social Network for Health Informatics Professionals and Students.
Healthcare Innovation
Healthcare Innovation delivers a bi-monthly print magazine and digital edition, daily enewsletters, and a comprehensive website.
HealthImaging
HealthImaging.com is the host web site for a group of communication products published by TriMed Media Group, for the medical imaging and healthcare IT industry including Health Imaging & IT magazine and Health Imaging News.
HealthIT.gov
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is at the forefront of the administration’s health IT efforts and is a resource to the entire health system to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care.
Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare is the industry’s most trusted, credible and relied-upon news source. Modern Healthcare examines the most pressing healthcare issues and provides executives with the information they need to make the most informed business decisions and lead their organizations to success. It’s for this reason Modern Healthcare is deemed a “must-read publication” by the who’s who in healthcare.
Open Health News
Open Health News (OHNews) is a combination news, information, and resource portal on all things related to 'Open Health' - i.e. open source, open access, open data, open architecture, open standards, and open communities in healthcare. We have become the premier site of choice for news and information about 'Open Health' information and technology.
Digital Health Space
The distance between providers represents the space that Digital Health Space is attempting to close using virtual applications, websites, social media, email, web portals and telehealth.
TEDMED
TEDMED celebrates conversations that demonstrate the intersection and connections between all things medical and healthcare related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital. Together, this encompasses more than twenty percent of our GNP in America while touching everyone's life around the globe.
Introducing Stitches!
Your Path to Meaningful Connections in the World of Health and Medicine
Connect, Collaborate, and Engage!
Coming Soon - Stitches, the innovative chat app from the creators of HWN. Join meaningful conversations on health and medical topics. Share text, images, and videos seamlessly. Connect directly within HWN's topic pages and articles.
