May 23, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Healthcare organizations trying to reduce the rate of medical errors often overlook a common but important factor within their systems—communication between physicians, nurses, and clinical care staff. To help fix this issue that could end up being very costly—both financially and clinically—New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center has adopted an enterprise-grade care-coordination mobile app designed to improve communication between clinicians.
May 23, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In this interview with Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, Matthew Mombrea, CTO and co-founder of Cypress North, creator of Smart Sign Out, talks about how the app came to life and what terrible incident partly inspired him. The app helps clinicians by giving them real-time patient information, so they can better coordinate care during shift changes or department transfers.
May 23, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Tom Martin, manager at mHIMSS, a non-profit sect of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, aimed at driving the use of mobile devices in healthcare. Martin discusses why most healthcare organizations are still struggling to figure out how to best use mHealth. “It’s overcoming the existing barriers that inhibit the widespread adoption,” he says.
May 21, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Four leading health systems in the Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance have formed a new collaborative to reduce supply costs and enhance care delivery.
May 20, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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An iPhone application transmitted diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than e-mailing photo images, according to a research study presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013, held from May 15 to 17 in Baltimore.
May 20, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Another year, another version of the Healthcare Informatics 100, the comprehensive list of the top 100 U.S. revenue-earning companies in the healthcare IT industry. HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna has compiled an infographic that has an in-depth look at some of interesting facets of the list.
May 20, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Another year, another version of the Healthcare Informatics 100, the comprehensive list of the top 100 U.S. revenue-earning companies in the healthcare IT industry. HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna has compiled an infographic that has an in-depth look at some of interesting facets of the list.
May 20, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Siemens Healthcare, a Malvern, Penn.-based company that prints and mails doctors’ bills on behalf of LSU Health Shreveport, and LSU Health Shreveport are notifying patients of a computer issue which resulted in an unintentional disclosure of personal health information.
May 14, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The healthcare world continues to be plagued by data breaches. Two providers, Indiana University Health Arnett, Inc. in Lafayette, Ind. and the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., both announced incidents, separately, this past week.
May 14, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In a recent report, researchers from HIMSS Analytics explored the network demands hospital IT leaders are facing with the increasing digitization of healthcare data. In an exclusive interview with Healthcare Informatics’ Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, Jennifer Horowitz, the senior director of research at HIMSS Analytics talks about the findings from this report and how mobile devices will cost hospitals in more ways than one.
May 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) has made known the winners of its Design Challenge for the Patient Portal for New Yorkers, announcing that Mana Health placed first, iHealthNY second, and MyHealth Profile third, and will be awarded $15,000, $7,500, and $2,500 respectively.
May 13, 2013 David Raths
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As PACS [picture archiving and communications systems] systems were becoming digital, Kyle Lawton, along with peerVue Inc. co-founder Eric Heath, saw an opening to develop a new software development methodology that was configurable and not based on specific requirements.
