NAHIT Survey Report: Health Care IT spending and Economic Realities

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SERIES December 2008 - Health Care IT Spending and Economic Realities: A survey of hospital and health system chief financial officers, vice presidents of finance and chief information officers.

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  • By Mia Erichson
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  • December 15, 2008

Google, IBM to spur adoption of portable health monitoring tools

Google has teamed with IBM to develop a service that will allow patients to use IBM's software to upload information from home-health monitoring devices to their personal medical records in Google Health. The collaboration aims to boost the use of portable devices and online systems to monitor diabetes and other chronic ailments.

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  • By John Farrell
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  • February 5, 2009
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Leveraging context-awareness at the mobile point of care

Healthcare organizations that have mobilized applications for smartphones or other handheld devices understand the competitive advantages they can gain, since having more detailed and relevant information on hand can sometimes mean the difference between life and death. But as the enterprise mobility landscape continues to evolve, more organizations are looking to context-aware computing to bridge the gap between simply sharing data and sharing relevant information.

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  • July 6, 2009

Medical Records Institute unveils mobile HIT advocacy group

The Medical Records Institute's yearlong drive to promote healthcare IT applications on cell phones and other mobile devices has led to the formation of a new, non-profit advocacy group. Unveiled Sunday in Palm Springs, Calif., during the opening day of MRI's 25th annual Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR+) conference and exhibition, the mHealth Initiative, Inc. is open to vendors, groups and individuals, and will focus on the latest information on health applications through mobile devices (mDevices).

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  • By John Farrell
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  • February 2, 2009
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Innovation Means Improving Existing Technologies

In my last blog, I wrote about how looking at the ways other industries use technology can provide inspiration for applying mobile technology to healthcare. This month, I would like to discuss an area where inspiration for innovation can evolve.

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  • August 18, 2009

Study: hospital needs driving data aggregation trend

A new study released by KLAS, a healthcare research firm based in Orem, Utah, claims the market for bringing healthcare data from disparate sources into one view is growing by leaps and bounds. The study notes that Microsoft is rapidly expanding its footprint in what KLAS calls an emerging aggregation market, driven largely by hospital IT teams turning to the aggregation of data in an effort to aid frustrated clinicians.

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  • By John Farrell
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  • February 10, 2009

Funding to boost IT at Massachusetts hospitals

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded $32.6 million in grants and increased Medicaid rate payments to 69 hospitals and community centers, some of which have earmarked the funds for information technology upgrades. Previous years' funding included only grant awards, but the 2009 distributions include both grants and increased Medicaid rate payments aimed at maximizing federal financial participation.

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  • By John Farrell
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  • February 6, 2009
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Mobile device makers planning rollouts

With the Palm Pre set to launch on Saturday, an updated iPhone 3.0 with support for Bluetooth-enabled medical peripheral devices close on its heels, and forthcoming launches of the Blackberry Storm 2 and Nokia N97, there should be plenty of smartphone stats kicking around online, and a whole new wave of arguments in the works concerning which device is really best for healthcare. The pre-launch buzz surrounding the Palm Pre suggests it may very well give Apple’s iPhone a run for its money. But it’s still very early to say. Too early.

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  • June 2, 2009
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Is VoWLAN ready for healthcare?

As WiMAX and LTE duke it out over the future of wireless connectivity, Wi-Fi—spurred on by the 802.11n standard—continues to grow by leaps and bounds. As several key market verticals, including healthcare, contend with the rapid adoption of laptop computers, Wi-Fi-enabled mobile handsets and other devices, it’s easy to see why unified communications and videoconferencing specialist Polycom recently declared: VoIP is the future.

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  • June 15, 2009

Stimulus Bill Calls For Computerizing Health Care

Dr. John Halamka, the chief information officer at Harvard Medical School and one of its teaching hospitals says the IT provision of the stimulus bill would boost the number of physicians who use computers in their practice and create 200,000 jobs. Dr. Halamka currently oversees 20,000 computers dedicated to health care.

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  • By John Farrell
  • January 28, 2009