Innovation
Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Use of the Apple Inc. iPad in health care has risen dramatically since the device was released nearly two years ago. The warm embrace that the industry gave the device, by now, surprises few — health care had been waiting for an easy-to-use tablet, IT departments were already familiar with the iOS operating system and physicians fit nicely into the target market for iPad users (meaning, they can afford it).
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7 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Innovation, mHealth, tablet PC
Ricky Y. Choi, SFGate
“These days my physician colleagues and I are up to our necks in a health technology revolution. To be honest, its not as captivating asPinterest or socially-engaging as a Google Huddle but to be sure your life will depend on it. The revolution ushered in by electronic health record (EHR) is less about the technology than the widespread impact it will have on patient care.
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3 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Innovation
Janet Dillione, Huffington Post
“The adoption of healthcare IT as a means to improve clinical workflow processes and ultimately to improve the delivery of patient care has accelerated.
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2 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adoption, Data Management, Innovation, Workflow
Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“The i2 Initiative is a bold new effort to spur innovations in health IT. The program utilizes prizes and challenges to facilitate innovation and obtain solutions to intractable health IT problems.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Discharge, Health Information Technology, Innovation, Transition
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“In addition to fulfilling unmet needs and improving health outcomes, lowering the costs associated with healthcare has long been a goal for many working in mobile health.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Innovation, mHealth
Nancy Fliesler, Vector
“Your child has been in the hospital and it’s discharge day. It’s a chaotic scene: You’re trying to take care of him and maybe his little sister who keeps running down the hall, while completing hospital paperwork and packing your bags.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, Innovation, mHealth, SMS
Olga Khazan, The Washington Post
“A new think tank launched in the District Monday with the goal of reducing the cost of health care through research and entrepreneurship. The West Health Policy Center is the latest project of Gary and Mary West, the two billionaire philanthropists behind the West Wireless Health Institute and the West Health Investment Fund, a pair of California-based organizations that develop and fund health technology products.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Innovation, Insurer, mHealth
Kathleen Sebelius, NCI Cancer Bulletin
“Since I was here in 2009, few fields have undergone such rapid change as mHealth. Virtually every American today has a cell phone. Some of us have to carry two. And every year, our phones have more features and computing power. This year, for the first time ever, smart phones accounted for more than half of all phone sales in the US.
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15 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Innovation, mHealth, Patient-clinician communication, Privacy
Eric J. Topol, Technology Review
“In the history of medical innovation, advances in technology have been inextricably linked to increases in cost. But we are at a unique moment in which the insular world of medicine is about to be penetrated by the remarkable digital infrastructure. Think about the cost of computing.
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13 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Innovation, Medical Apps, mHealth, Ultrasound
Kristine Martin Anderson, Government Health IT
“Even among very knowledgeable people, the concept of health information technology is often equated with its most familiar element, “electronic health records.” Adoption of electronic health records are a critical first step to realizing the transformational power of Health IT – but getting out of paper enables even greater HIT capabilities.
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12 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Benefits, emergency, Health Information Technology, Innovation, Medical Errors, Patient, Public Health, Transition
PRWeb
“The mHealth Alliance, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, today announced the winners of the Top 11 in 2011 Innovators Challenge, a first-of-its-kind challenge which recognizes pioneering mobile health (mHealth) professionals who have used mobile technology in innovative ways to improve health systems and outcomes in even the most remote areas of the world.
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5 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Innovation, mHealth
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Electronic health records will become the norm, sooner than later, experts said at a summit hosted Friday by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
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21 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Innovation
Mihir Patel, MedHealthWorld
“Telemedicine was conceived early in the space program to help monitor astronauts’ vital signs. Like many National Aeronautics and Space Administration innovations, it has spun off and taken on a life of its own, spurred in large part by the growth in technological innovation in health and communications.
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16 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Benefits, Innovation, Quality, Telemedicine
Justine Cadet, CMIO
“If we simplify the problem, we simplify the development of solutions,” said Clayton M. Christensen, MBA, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He spoke Oct. 26 at CHIME11, the Fall CIO Forum.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Disruptive, Innovation, Ultrasound
Bernd DL, Fine PS. Frontiers of Health Services Management, 28(1)
Health systems are moving to implement comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) systems, or significant pieces of them, in the belief that EMR can be integrated into clinical practice and lead to improved patient outcomes and enhanced safety. There are substantial roadblocks to implementing EMR, including significant cost, the competency needed to implement, the political environment, organization infrastructure and culture, and how organization leaders understand return on investment.
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25 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Innovation
fllordachs, Una de Médicos
“Pocas cosas son tan polivalentes como la tecnología. Desde siempre, desde la rueda (que ha servido para mejorar la vida de las personas, pero también y en parte empeorarla: se podían hacer carros de guerra y transporte) o incluso antes (las herramientas de silex podían curtir la piel y a abatir animales o personas, para cocinarlas y zampárselas) el fin de la tecnología ha dependido de la mano que la usa. Lo cierto es que cuando las cosas van mal, todo el mundo ataca el arma como filosofía, cuando en realidad es el agresor el culpable de la misma.
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20 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Innovation
Greiver M et al, Canadian Family Physician, 57(10)
Objective
To apply the diffusion-of-innovations theory to the examination of factors that are perceived by family physicians as influencing the implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs).
Design
Qualitative study with 2 focus groups 18 months after EMR implementation; participants also took part in a concurrent quantitative study examining EMR implementation and preventive services.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tag(s): GP, Implementation, Innovation, Physicians
Sinha SR, Barry M. N Engl J Med, 365(9)
In recent years, interest in both global health and health care innovation has grown tremendously, and there has been increasing recognition of the importance of medical devices and other nonpharmaceutical health-related technologies to all aspects of health care. In 2007, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued the first global directive on medical devices, recognizing that, like medicines, many health technologies are indispensible.
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11 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biomedicine, Health Information Technology, Innovation
Dave Chase, Huffington Post
“Health 2.0 just had its largest ever event, with 50 percent more attendees than their previous largest event. A number of companies launched during the conference, but like many events, the most interesting activity wasn’t what happened on the main stage but the many side meetings/events that took place.
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9 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Disruptive, Health 2.0, Innovation
Jaspal S. Sandhu, SSI Review
“More than three-quarters of the world’s 5.3 billion mobile phones are located in the developing world. These increasingly powerful devices are proving to be a lifeline for people who need improved access to health services. The trend of using mobile phones for health—known as mHealth—represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving public health.
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4 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Developing Countries, Innovation, mHealth
