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EMR Swap to Improve POC Collaboration?

Count Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) among those healthcare organizations making major health IT changes in an effort to foster more meaningful collaboration at the mobile point of care.   I had...

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Streamlining Communications with an In-House App

For the past 12 years or so, San Francisco-based MedAmerica has relied on a web portal to keep doctors in touch with other physicians and clinical staff. More recently, as the BYOD trend has helped...

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Are the iPad’s Days Numbered in Healthcare?

Remember when the iPad arrived on the healthcare scene? As a non-enterprise device, it snuck in the back door—often in doctors’ pockets—and redefined user expectations in the process. Health IT...

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mHealth Summit: Eyes on Funding Trends

For the past four years, I’ve watched thousands of health and technology influencers, developers, policy makers, business leaders, and others pack themselves into the mHealth Summit for a glimpse at...

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Tablets in the Health IT Enterprise: What to Consider

As mobile device and app makers focus their attention on improving user experience and workflow issues, healthcare organizations continue to strive for the best mix of technology suitable for the...

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On the Health IT Horizon: The Rise of 2 in 1 Mobile Devices

I was expecting the arrival of 2 in 1 mobile devices to make more of a splash in the healthcare space.   These slick devices, which combine a tablet and a laptop, started popping up in healthcare...

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Touch Computing: Increasingly Relevant to Healthcare

  It's always tempting to get caught up in the promise of the next, new thing. Gestural computing and 3-D printing spring to mind as recent examples, as well as a variety of wearable tech gadgets that...

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Health IT Interoperability Pulling Ahead?

I’m not what you’d call a huge fan of horse racing, but I’ve watched enough Triple Crown events to know how exciting it can be when a dark horse contender suddenly breaks from the pack and spurs the...

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Securing PHI in the Mobile Age

Mobile devices have become go-to tools for clinicians because they enable ready access to the right information when and where it’s needed most, improving patient care and lowering healthcare costs in...

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mHealth: Drawing Nearer to Patient Engagement

Transitioning the burden of health care from the system to the patient has raised many questions along the way, not the least of which centers on what roles mobile devices ultimately will play in...

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Big Data: Healthcare’s Answer to Complex Challenges

It’s that time of year again. The ‘Most Wired’ list has come out spotlighting healthcare organizations that are gaining ground by leveraging IT, but many in the industry are so baffled by the selection...

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Mobile Device Security Raises Risk for Hospitals

The bring-your-own-device to work trend is deeply entrenched in the healthcare industry, with roughly 89 percent of the nation’s healthcare workers now relying on their personal devices in the...

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Transforming Healthcare through Big Data

Frustration with electronic health record (EHR) systems notwithstanding, the data aggregation processes that have grown out of healthcare’s adoption of the electronic health record are now spawning...

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Keeping Patient Data Safe from Evolving Threats

The healthcare industry’s digital transformation calls for shifting the burden of care from the system to the patient. Technology is helping to lead this charge, as evidenced by the growing number of...

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mHealth: Connecting Consumers with Care

The buzz following the mHealth Summit has been encouraging, to say the least. The December event drew 4,000 attendees, who were brought up to speed on the latest developments spanning policies and...

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