POSTS TAGGED AS information technology

Downloadable e-Book on Consumer Healthcare Devices

This piece is written for the healthcare provider, about how to integrate consumer devices into the provider’s IT system.  [MORE]

World Bank Program in Health IT

According to the World Bank the global health market amounts to $6 trillion, with health information technology and management [MORE]

Telematics Platform: Implementation of Health Solutions

Authors:  R-D. Berndt, M. C. Takenga, S. Kuehn, P. Preik
Dr. Ing Takenga
Objectives: Involving information and communication technology in health solutions [MORE]

IBM’s Watson Healthcare Advisory Board

Watson Computer on Jeopardy
Most of us will remember IBM’s supercomputer “Watson” beating the pants off human competitors on the quiz [MORE]

Qualcomm’s Branch for Wireless Medical Devices

Qualcomm Life 2Net Ecosystem Graphic
Qualcomm has left the business of making cell phones and pursued ways for making them [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”

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

Mobile Platforms Forecast

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

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