When disaster strikes, you hope that Capt. Allen Dobbs, MD and his colleagues are on board the next military aircraft headed in your direction. At the recent HIMSS12 Conference in Las Vegas, MedHealthWorld interviewed Dobbs who is Chief Medical Officer of the National Disaster Medical System’s Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, all a part [read more]
Monitoring progress is absolutely essential to achieving weight loss and to successfully maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The difficulty lies in selecting which information to log and just what to make of it all. Enter BodyMedia FIT. Body monitoring system developer BodyMedia has created an armband that dually monitors physical and physiological activity (and inactivity) to [read more]
Based upon a survey of 200 IT professionals and more than 200 caregivers at large hospitals, a new CDW Healthcare report finds that 84 percent of caregivers feel that patient care is improved by using healthcare information technologies. Further, healthcare IT solutions are getting better. Caregivers rate systems installed during the last 18 months as [read more]
MedHealthWorld spoke with Randall Porter, Assistant Vice President of AT&T ForHealth at the 2012 HIMSS Conference in Las Vegas. Mr. Porter has been with AT&T for 15 years and is now responsible for AT&T ForHealth. As a long-time AT&T veteran, Porter related how several years ago, AT&T saw that healthcare would become a burgeoning market. [read more]
How much should a company handling Protected Health Information (PHI)[1] spend to protect itself from a data breach? Businesses typically use quantitative methods such as Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return and Payback Period to make investment decisions. But investments to prevent breaches of PHI have until now relied on compliance arguments and subjective [read more]
General Electric’s VEO technology has the potential to change the face of CT technology by renegotiating the side effects of high-quality diagnostic imagery. The product, a result of more than ten years of collaboration between scientists and researchers from Purdue, Notre Dame and Michigan, uses an advanced data-based algorithm, MBiR, to create results that are [read more]
During the HIMSS12 conference, MedHealthWorld spoke with Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, Director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Dr. Fridsma explained to MedHealthWorld that his personal mission at ONC is to create an environment in [read more]
Shareable Ink®, an enterprise cloud computing company that transforms paper documentation to structured data, today announced three new partnerships with leading EHR vendors that will further the company’s reach in delivering a reliable, portable and easy to implement electronic data capture solution that works with existing physician workflows. The agreements with Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., [read more]
UnitedHealthcare is making it easier for its plan participants to take greater control of their health through a new mobile app, Health4Me. Now available for the Apple iPhone and iPad -and coming to the Android this spring – Health4Me brings important health information for people on the go. The free mobile app provides millions of [read more]
Las Vegas, NV (February 21, 2012) – Nuvon, Inc. (www.nuvon.com), today announced two new offerings that support medical device data mastery for healthcare, going beyond medical device connectivity to deliver the most important aspects of patient care data – accuracy, completeness, timeliness, synchronization, availability, security, and authentication. view full post »
