Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Tech talk: 3-D printing, virtual immersion and interactive rooms
Tech talk: 3-D printing, virtual immersion and interactive rooms: Advanced facilities further clinical education and patient satisfaction
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
Tech for tech's sake?
Tech for tech's sake?: Hospitals need to focus on strategy and real-world effectiveness when buying clinical devices or machines.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Monday, October 31, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Hospitals Need to Pay Attention to the 'Little Data' at the Point of Care
Hospitals Need to Pay Attention to the 'Little Data' at the Point of Care: Leaders who address 'invisible' basic service issues improve productivity, quality and patient satisfaction.
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Wireless Earbuds Will Record Your EEG, Send Brainwave Data to Your Phone
Wireless Earbuds Will Record Your EEG, Send Brainwave Data to Your Phone: With the 'Aware' earbuds, quantified selfers can add brain-tracking data to their quantified lives
Prosthetic Hand Restores Amputee's Sense of Touch
Prosthetic Hand Restores Amputee's Sense of Touch: Implanted electrodes make this haptic hand feel like the real deal
With a Patient's Virtual Heart, Doctors Predict Cardiac Arrest
With a Patient's Virtual Heart, Doctors Predict Cardiac Arrest: A customized computer model showing a heart's unique pattern of electrical activity can guide medical intervention
Five Reasons to 'Like' Patients’ Use of Social Media
Five Reasons to 'Like' Patients’ Use of Social Media: As social media and its applications in health care continue to evolve, it’s worth taking a snapshot of where we are today and where we may be headed.
Five Reasons to 'Like' Patients’ Use of Social Media
Five Reasons to 'Like' Patients’ Use of Social Media: As social media and its applications in health care continue to evolve, it’s worth taking a snapshot of where we are today and where we may be headed.
10 Surprising Keys to Strategic Thinking for Health Care CEOs
10 Surprising Keys to Strategic Thinking for Health Care CEOs: When thinking about strategy, a leader needs to focus on value and differentiation — not being big and bold.
IBM Health Swinging Big in Predictive Analytics
IBM Health Swinging Big in Predictive Analytics: The tech giant last year formally jumped into predictive analytics and has been on a tear ever since, doing deals and partnering with others.
How Hospitals are Fighting on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis
How Hospitals are Fighting on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis: No hospital is safe from the effects of an opioid epidemic that’s raging across America, and neither is any patient. An estimated 44 people die every day in the U.S. from overuse of powerful prescription painkillers, from teens to senior citizens, in isolated rural towns and large metropolises alike.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
How Your Hospital Can Tailor A Value-based Strategy
How Your Hospital Can Tailor A Value-based Strategy: Although global budgeting and full capitation are not possible for many hospitals, some are taking a slower path toward transitioning to value-based services. Even still, these moves create value gains and help to build the infrastructure to go further.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Task force creates framework to define skills, education for clinical informatics execs
Task force creates framework to define skills, education for clinical informatics execs: Required education and skills for chief clinical informatics officer roles (CCIO) is necessary for 'a dynamic, motivated workforce,' according to a report from an American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) task force
Find improvement at the junction of patient experience and clinical performance
Find improvement at the junction of patient experience and clinical performance: Hospitals can improve their performance in a consumer-driven environment by adopting core tenets based on the intersections of patient experience and clinical performance, according to a new market report by Press Ganey Holdings.
AHA, AHIMA laud early release of new ICD-10 codes
AHA, AHIMA laud early release of new ICD-10 codes: Both the American Hospital Association and the American Health Information Management Association this week lauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the early release of thousands of new ICD-10 procedure coding system and clinical modification codes prior to Oct. 1.
AHIMA petitions White House on national patient identifier
AHIMA petitions White House on national patient identifier: A petition asking the White House to recognize the need for a national patient identifier has been created by the American Health Information Management Association.
AHIMA petitions White House on national patient identifier
AHIMA petitions White House on national patient identifier: A petition asking the White House to recognize the need for a national patient identifier has been created by the American Health Information Management Association.
Veterans open to using health IT for mental healthcare
Veterans open to using health IT for mental healthcare: Veterans being treated for mental health issues show interest in using technology to receive care, with a few caveats, according to research published at Telemedicine and e-Health.
Hospital IT official resigns, compares organization's EHR launch to Challenger disaster
Hospital IT official resigns, compares organization's EHR launch to Challenger disaster: Following a report Wednesday by the New York Post that NYC Health Hospitals official Charles Perry, M.D., resigned in the wake of an electronic health record implementation he compared to the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, a hospital spokesperson says the organization is not compromising patient safety.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
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