POSTS TAGGED AS information technology

Qualcomm’s Branch for Wireless Medical Devices

Qualcomm has left the business of making cell phones and pursued ways for making them better.  Last month, Qualcomm [MORE]

Distributed Information Services

“Health information exchange,” “regional health information organization,” “accountable care,” and “meaningful use” are all ideas coming from healthcare reform [MORE]

The C.I.A. of Healthcare’s Future: Educating Tomorrow’s Professionals

Innovative, extraordinary technologies are being developed today for almost every aspect of healthcare delivery.  For those involved in educating tomorrow’s [MORE]

Dirk Timmermann Will Present at the Medical Automation Conference

Dirk Timmermann, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rostock, will present

Business Intelligence for Hospitals

While hospitals still struggle with implementing electronic medical records, there’s also a need for analytics that can mine the [MORE]

Myths about “Clouds”

The hospital of the future primarily may be an information service provider-one without any patient beds of its own.  [MORE]

Mobile Platforms Forecast

It’s not a matter of knowing the need, but rather how to act on the need that is the [MORE]

Health Industry Issues in 2011

In this downloadable report, PriceWaterhouse Coopers outlines what its Health Research Institute thinks will be the major healthcare economic [MORE]

Electronic Identification, Free for Physicians

At the Medical Automation Conference earlier this month, Dr. Peter Tippett, Healthcare Director for Verizon, reiterated Verizon’s announcement of [MORE]

University of Buffalo Institute for Healthcare Informatics

With a $15m contribution in computer equipment from Dell and $20m from the New York State Health Department, the [MORE]

IBM’s World Initiative on Health IT

IBM recently committed $100m to several initiatives over the next three years that focus on systems integration, services research, [MORE]

Download for “Personalized Preventative Healthcare”

While this free download derives from European studies of the wellness spectrum, the key concept applies everywhere: “Because quality [MORE]

Cloud Computing for Clinical Data Analysis

A century ago, electrical utility companies separately generated their own power; then, the electricity grid allowed them to share [MORE]

Mobile Devices for Reading Radiology Images

“The next 25 years are going to be about restructuring radiology and surgical processes, restructuring the whole healthcare approach [MORE]

Offshore Health IT Services

Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) has decided to outsource some of its IT work to [MORE]

More Clinical Experience with the iPhone

For anyone looking for an example of how a smart phone might be able to integrate multiple information sources [MORE]

Automating Everything

Like nearly every hospital in the county, the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center uses a variety of IT [MORE]

The Data Crush

The Analystics group of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently found that nearly every hospital IT executive [MORE]

Integrated Process Management Information Technology: The Next Generation in Medical Efficiency

There is a need for significant overhaul of current medical information technology to better support the complex processes of healthcare [MORE]

21st Century Healthcare: Engineers Wanted

In 1980, the Russian Institute of Eye Microsurgery pioneered the ‘conveyer surgery method’ (1)- wherein several surgeons perform different parts [MORE]