Health IT

healthcare costs

Under today’s reimbursement system, better care doesn’t always yield better business results. That’s because healthcare organizations aren’t incentivized to eliminate profitable procedures that may not benefit patients. The way most hospitals and clinicians are paid today, why would we expect otherwise?[read more]

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One of the most interesting sessions I attended at ATA 2013 in Austin was moderated by Frost & Sullivan’s Daniel Ruppar. Daniel talked about the varying adoption and growth rates of telehealth categories such as remote patient monitoring, mHealth, and telemedicine; here are some takeaways from the panel.[read more]

Health IT

AsseSSOnce provides users with one clinical desktop solution that layers over all existing applications. It is capable of working across desktop, laptop and tablet devices and creates a virtual desktop that allows session persistence from the office, to the patients’ bedsides, to the outpatients’ clinic.[read more]

TED talk

The challenge with ACA is to make it a financially sustainable business model. The same applies to Integrated Health Systems. The further growth of HIS will be at the expense of the present individual, and small medical groups. Eventually, the IHS will provide the most efficient administrative and clinical organization.[read more]

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Last month I spoke at the first CIS Qatar International Conference in Doha Qatar; the program was focused on implementation issues and what it takes to realize the benefits of EMR adoption. My topic was the Importance of Enterprise Wide Medical Device Integration in CIS workflow.[read more]

patient engagement podcast

A conversation with Carestream’s Julie Weidman, marketing manager for the U.S. and Canada, and Cristine Kao, global marketing manager for the company’s Healthcare Information Solutions (HCIS) division. The two dive into the trend of patient engagement and medical professionals’ opinions on this trend.[read more]

Health IT

As a 20-year practicing physician and a former hospital CIO/CMIO, I am well aware that healthcare is an extremely complex, highly regulated industry. Nonetheless, I am dismayed by how much money gets wasted in healthcare due to inefficient processes and antiquated technologies.[read more]

EHR

I think recent innovations in tech have created new opportunities to re-imagine electronic health record solutions. Past generations of EHR/EMR solutions, often designed by engineers rather than clinicians, have relied too much on copying paper-based workflow.[read more]

Last week the Greater Chicago Chapter of HIMSS invited me to participate in their healthcare technology webinar series. I covered the topic “What’s Next for Healthcare Information Technology Innovation?” and the screencast with audio has been posted here. I covered numerous topics that are helpful for entrepreneurs and engineers that want to create innovative healthcare technology.[read more]

Instead of seeing health reform as a challenge, our own Cristine Kao, global market director for HCIS at Carestream, believes it is an opportunity to improve what we are doing in healthcare on a day-to-day basis. That opportunity for improved care is being led by the patients, who are becoming increasingly involved in the monitoring and management of their own care.[read more]

First off, I'm no legal expert, but recently I had an interesting conversation with the director of HIT at Texas Medical Association, which represents more than 47,000 physicians in the state. I scheduled the call because we wanted to learn more about (and hopefully help them with) the hurdles smaller, clinic-based physicians are encountering when trying to switch EHR vendors, be it to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2 data exchange requirements or to simply move to a vendor that delivers a better product.[read more]

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The ACP Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee; the ACP Council of Associates; and the FSMB Special Committee on Ethics and Professionalism spent 18 months developing a policy statement on online medical professionalism. Here are the five key position statements.[read more]