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How would you complete this sentence? That’s what a new portal, www.intelstartnow, wants to hear from you. In conjunction with the upcoming HIMSS conference, March 1-4, the new site debuted this week and already has several industry thought leaders and executives who have submitted their ideas for how they will to contribute to a better healthcare system going forward.

Research can be a powerful tool.  Research tells us how we’re doing, where we should go, what an audience is thinking, how to solve problems and what solutions to employ.

Need to overcome security concerns for your healthcare-grade wireless network? Need advice on best practices for moving from strategy to deployment? Learn from industry insiders and your peers at HealthcareGoesMobile.com during the upcoming HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo, Nov. 3-4.

Something special is coming to HealthcareGoesMobile.com in just a few days. The first Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) Week is slated for Oct. 12-16, when we'll dedicate our community to all things related to the MCA device specifically designed to streamline workflow and aid clinicians with patient data at the point of care.

In his address to a joint session of Congress last week, President Barack Obama brought healthcare information technology to the forefront and laid it as a cornerstone for a fundamental shift in the United States’ overall healthcare system.

Obama has long supported healthcare IT as a foundation for change, and many of the initiatives he proposes -- preventive treatment, best practices and fraud prevention – all rely greatly on healthcare IT.

There’s no doubt that mobile point of care technology is key to improving both workflow and patient outcomes. If your organization is identifying critical components and determining plans for implementing a new MPOC system, or you want to learn more about how other hospitals and healthcare organizations are approaching this task, we invite you to our next free webinar on Aug. 20 at 2 p.m.

If you’re considering tablet computers for your healthcare environment, Motion Computing is offering an educational webinar on March 17, and again on March 19, that focuses on improving healthcare workflows.

Are you investigating tablet computers? Two leading technology providers, Motion Computing and Panasonic, are offering these educational opportunities online and in person.

Motion Tablets - Designed to Improve Field Mobility

Learn about the features of Motion tablets and hear how customers are using them to:

Thanks to our community and the more than 330 participants who joined us for the Jan. 29 webinar, Managing Change: How to Overcome Obstacles and Encourage Mobile Technology Adoption. Our three distinguished speakers described how they addressed real-world challenges in implementing mobile point-of-care technologies, including wireless networks and mobile devices.

We know mobile technology can help us work smarter, increase accuracy and reduce costs. Yet there are still many obstacles to overcome – building a shared knowledge base is chief among them. To help us hone in on the ways we can work to overcome those obstacles, we recently completed a national survey of healthcare providers, IT professionals and administrators. Here’s what we learned.

Research results in brief

In Marc Holland’s (IDC) blog posts of Nov. 7 ("Computing goes mobile") and Nov. 10 (" More guidance ...), he gave us some guidance on what to look for in a mobile clinical assistant system and talked about the Motion C5 device and Panasonic’s new Toughbook H1.

In advance of our upcoming webinar on Jan. 29, we polled the early registrants to see what their questions are regarding the topic: Managing Change: How to Overcome Obstacles and Encourage Mobile Technology Adoption. Proving value, security issues and technology integration are all areas of concern for our community.

Here's a preview of some of the questions that caught our attention, submitted directly from community members who are out in the field dealing with these real-world issues:

One of the major challenges facing mobile point-of-care technologies is the adoption by clinicians and staff.  HealthcareGoesMobile.com is preparing an exclusive webinar with real-world models and tools that you can use in the workplace.

Scheduled for Jan. 29, this complimentary, one-hour webinar shows you how to create a change-management process, one that succinctly outlines the benefits of adopting mobile point-of-care solutions, including: