By shadz on June 24, 2010
mHealth 2010 brings together leading players from across the entire mobile healthcare ecosystem. It will feature 35+ top executive presentations and global case studies. The conference will facilitate the global development of mobile healthcare and explore ways in which universal healthcare can be delivered with the aid of mobile technology.
What is unique about this event?
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Posted in Events | Tagged Dubai, mHealth, mobile health
By shadz on April 19, 2010
HIC is an Australia’s longest running and continually growing health informatics and e-health conference conducted by HISA (Health Informatics Society of Australia)and this year event will be held in Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Center, Melbourne, Australia from 24th to 26th August 2010.
HIC 2010 would be a place to understand the latest developments in generation and [...]
Posted in Events | Tagged Health Informatics Society of Australia, healthcare IT, HIC, HISA
By shadz on April 2, 2010
This report from IBM Global business services provides a detailed description of the drivers that they believe will make today’s healthcare environment fundamentally different from the past, the possible scenarios for healthcare in 2015, a tool to assess a country’s ability to transform its healthcare system, a hierarchy of healthcare needs, principles to guide transformation, [...]
Posted in White Papers | Tagged 2015, healthcare IT, IBM
By shadz on March 26, 2010
While the healthcare industry is often accused of being slow to change, a new study conducted by HIMSS Analytics and sponsored by GHX found that there is widespread use of e-commerce by U.S. hospitals in the purchasing process, with 95 percent of acute-care hospitals with more than 150 beds purchasing at least some of their [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged e-Commerce, GHX, Himss, Hospital
By shadz on March 24, 2010
US president Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a landmark health care reform bill, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November congressional elections.
The law will bring near-universal coverage to a wealthy country in which tens of millions of [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged health bill, obama, US healthcare
By shadz on March 22, 2010
A study conducted by Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has found that among 12 New York State primary care practices, the six that had adopted “e-prescribing” systems reduced their prescribing errors by nearly seven-fold over one year. Errors included mistakes like giving patients the wrong dose, wrong duration of use or incorrect [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged e-prescribing, Electronic prescribing, Weill Cornell
By shadz on March 10, 2010
John Lynn has released a new e-book on ‘How to Select an EMR’ . This would be very helpful reference book for Doctors and Practice managers to narrow down their EMR system choices and also to plan for things to do before selecting an EMR. As John indicates this EMR selection e-Book has a good mix [...]
Posted in Resource | Tagged EMR, EMR book, EMR systems
By shadz on March 8, 2010
I was reading Chilmark and Healthcare IT guy’s about their take on innovation in healthcare IT both of them have almost expressed similar opinion on Innovation in healthcare IT and apparently, both of them feels that they didn’t see any significant innovation being announced in this HIMSS10.
Chilmark nicely puts it as ‘No tsunamis, just ripples [...]
Posted in Healthcare IT | Tagged healthcare IT
By shadz on March 3, 2010
IBM unveiled a new high-performance computing (HPC) initiative for biomedical and life sciences research that features one of the most powerful supercomputers in the Texas Medical Center. Rice scientists will use the supercomputer in collaboration with researchers from across the medical center to study cancer, AIDS and other complex diseases.
The POWER7-based supercomputer is the centerpiece [...]
Posted in USA
By shadz on March 2, 2010
GE Healthcare introduced Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.
Qualibria is the result of a multi-year [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged Ge healthcare, Qualibria
