POSTS TAGGED AS information technology

Epic and UNC Health Testing Generative AI

Epic is going all in on generative AI in healthcare
“UNC Health has been tapped to test-drive Epic’s generative AI tools [MORE]

Problems with Hospital IT

Computer science in health care
It’s hard to say when the “Chief Information Officer” executives first became essential in hospital service: [MORE]

Disruptive Innovations in Healthcare

Future of Healthcare
In a quick summary chart, this piece from Becker’s Hospital Review lists ten disruptive forces in healthcare and [MORE]

Google Glass for Parkinson Patients

Google Glass Used for Parkinsons
Parkinson’s sufferers experience many difficulties beyond the unsteady gait.  Tremors can make it difficult to use [MORE]

CVS Adopts EPIC EMR System Prior to Services Expansion

Minute Clinic
How will we know when CVS, Walmart, Walgreens, et al in retail healthcare make their strategic move into the [MORE]

IT “Game Changers”

Becker’s Hospital Review has a new listing for healthcare information technology and this piece points out “the top 10 [MORE]

Vinton Cerf’s Concept of “Digital Vellum”

Vinton Cerf
Remember Sony’s “Betamax,” or for that matter, remember the JVC’s  “VHS” cassetts?  Today, many families have boxes of [MORE]

Data Mining EHRs for Adverse Drug Effects

By combining two types of algorithms that search for adverse drug effects in medical records, a researcher at the [MORE]

mHealth as Subscription Service

This piece argues that mHealth applications for medical providers “will soon evolve into app platforms whose functions can be rented [MORE]

Study Results: Distance Monitoring of CHF Patients

In 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced its “Beacon Communities” program, which funds healthcare IT [MORE]

Computational Medicine Perspective

In 2005, The Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering and its School of Medicine began a collaboration called [MORE]

UPMC’s Data Warehouse for Personalized Medicine

A key difference between healthcare providers which claim to be offering “more personalized medicine” than ever and those that [MORE]

Social Factors in Hospital Readmissions

This piece raises the question of social factors, like employment, home location, etc, being relevant to hospital readmissions which [MORE]

Useable Genomics for Physicians

Knome DNA Decoder
The greatest constriction of clinical genomics no longer is the cost of DNA sequencing as much as [MORE]