More Mobile Questions: Do Your Devices Play Nicely?
Today I had a very interesting conversation with a health IT exec (full disclosure: a client) about the future of mobile devices in hospitals. His perspective, which sounded dead-on to me, was that...
View ArticleBig EMR Problems To Tackle in 2012
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury 2011 EMR assumptions, not to praise them. Here’s some of the critical problems we didn’t kick this year: * Just about everything we’d like...
View ArticleApple Security Issues Linger, Raising iPad, iPhone Concerns For Hospitals
To date, few hospital IT administrators have made a big investment in supporting Apple devices, though many facilities are testing them out. Most testers have found that neither the smartphone nor the...
View ArticleAre iPads Good For Healthcare? A Few Video Viewpoints
Within, say, six months of its introduction, bloggers were already waxing rhapsodic over the potential of the iPad to transform the practice of medicine. Many industry observers still do see the iPad...
View ArticleWhat Do Patients Need From EMRs?
As we’ve noted countless times in this space, EMRs aren’t going to get any better unless vendors and doctors communicate freely. But what about catering to the needs of patients. But given that by...
View ArticleHospital Residents Question Value of iPad For Clinical Rounding
Though the iPad has a sexy reputation — the Apple mystique is alive and well — it may not not necessarily the best tool to use for clinical rounding or education, according to a new study published in...
View ArticleHospital CIOs Say Better Data Security Is Key Goal
A new study has concluded that while they obviously have other goals, an overwhelming majority of healthcare CIOs see data protection as their key objective for the near future. The study, which was...
View ArticleBroadband Mobile Should Change mHealth Game
You never know what you’re going to learn when you wander into a cell phone store, other than being hit with some fairly slick marketing slicks and rapid-fire pitched on that sweet, sweet iPhone...
View ArticleHealth Organizations Failing At Digital Health Innovation
Few healthcare providers are prepared to harvest benefits from digital health innovations, a new study suggests. The study, by innovation consultancy Enspektos LLC, concludes that digital health...
View ArticleToo Many Healthcare Apps
As we all know, if we want something, there’s probably an app for that. From head to toe, from bank to restaurant to club, in most places in the world, there’s probably an app to meet your needs. Apple...
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