New video: Mobility transforms nursing workflow at HealthAlliance
As a result of an innovative WLAN from Innerwireless, HealthAlliance Hospital, a community-based healthcare organization in Leominster, Mass., has vaulted ahead of the pack when it comes to enabling mobile point-of-care technologies. The resulting transformation in nursing workflow is highlighted in this new video, debuting during Nurses’ Week for our virtual community.
- Blog entry
- May 11, 2009
- By jyamamoto
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Intel and Cisco WLAN Deployment Guide for Healthcare
Mobile technologies have demonstrated maturity in large enterprises, empowering workers and boosting productivity by greatly increasing access to tools and information. Adoption of mobile technologies continues to increase, with wireless networks becoming nearly ubiquitous in Fortune 5001 campus environments.
- PDF white paper
- July 5, 2008
- By Intel Corporation
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Unlocking Medical Information
When Baptist Health of Northeast Florida started planning its move to a paperless healthcare environment, management from the CEO on down were clear on one thing: Unhindered access to digital information would be critical. Today, Intel® technology-based mobile point of care (MPOC) solutions are enabling new ways to work and deliver care at two of Baptist Health’s community hospitals, and the remaining three are on track for conversion by early 2008.
The results are pervasive. “There is no aspect of clinical practice and no corner of the clinical care environment that hasn’t been impacted and improved by having mobile, simultaneous access to digital health information,” says Keith Stein, MD, chief medical officer at Baptist Health.
- PDF white paper
- June 29, 2008
- By Intel Corporation
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The Race is On
In my last blog, I asked a few questions about the race to satisfy Meaningful Use requirements such as: will we implement EMRs at the cost of hurting our cultures and disrupting the processes that are working well? And what about processes that aren’t working so well…will we opt for functionality and miss the opportunities for improvement?
- Blog entry
- August 27, 2010
- By Cheryl Parker RN PhD
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Curing Your IT Pain Points
If you are a healthcare IT manager, you know the pain points of managing a complex computer network on a daily basis. It can be a challenge to educate users, focus on security and coordinate training around new devices, while devising a plan around what to do when staff members load Yahoo and Facebook applications on the system without authorization.
- Blog entry
- August 18, 2010
- By GaryRubin
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Mobile Health Poised For Growth, Reimbursement Issues Linger
The mobile healthcare industry continues to grow at a fast clip – with the market for mHealth poised to hit $4.6 billion by 2014, according to a report from CSMG, the Overland, Kans.-based division of TMNG Global, a leading provider of products and services to the communications, media and entertainment industries.
But healthcare is healthcare – and, not surprisingly, therefore, reimbursement issues could stifle this growth.
- Blog entry
- August 4, 2010
- By John McCormack
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Next Steps: Making EHR Meaningful Use a Reality
Right now there are hundreds, even thousands, of physician practices using certified electronic health records (EHRs) with the functionality and product strategy capabilities to meet the objectives and requirements of the EHR Meaningful Use Final Rule released July 13.
- Blog entry
- July 20, 2010
- By Justin Barnes
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Do You Have Blinders On? I Did
Drivers of horse-drawn carriages put blinders on horses to block their peripheral vision. This keeps the horses focused on what is ahead of them instead of being distracted by what is around them. While this may be a good thing for horses; what about for those of us who work in healthcare technology?
- Blog entry
- July 19, 2010
- By Cheryl Parker RN PhD
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Healthcare Organizations Need to See Complete Data Security Picture
Data security issues are a nagging presence – as healthcare organizations move toward more mobile electronic record keeping systems. The “2010 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data,” a study commissioned by Kroll Fraud Solutions, Nashville, Tenn., found that 19 percent of the organizations participating in the survey experienced a data breach in the last year, up from just 13 percent two years ago.
- Blog entry
- July 15, 2010
- By John McCormack
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Lock Your Data, Not Your Device: Learn About Smart, Secure Mobile Computing
In today's increasingly mobile healthcare setting, clinicians want – and are adopting – MPOC, whether at a small, 10-person clinic or within a large hospital. But the risk of a lost device is a concern, as it can easily cost over $700K* and a loss of patient confidence. Attend this Webinar and learn how the latest in mobile healthcare technology helps protect patient information, while providing the most up-to-date patient data to increase productivity, save time, improve documentation and reduce errors.
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- Improving Quality of Care and Nursing Workflow
- A Clinician Usability Pilot: Improving Quality of Care and Workflow Efficiencies Using Mobile Technology
- University of Kentucky Healthcare – Mobile Point of Care (MPoC) – from Proof of Concept through Implementation
- Webinar from Motion Computing & Panasonic H1 Customer Events
- Intel and Cisco WLAN Deployment Guide for Healthcare
- Assessing the Value of Mobile Point-of-Care Solutions for Three Clinical Workflows
- Unlocking Medical Information
- More guidance and what to look for in a mobile clinical assistant-based system
- Computing Goes Mobile
- What we can learn from the Most Wireless Hospital Awards
Recent blog posts
- The Race is On
- Curing Your IT Pain Points
- Mobile Health Poised For Growth, Reimbursement Issues Linger
- Next Steps: Making EHR Meaningful Use a Reality
- Do You Have Blinders On? I Did
- Healthcare Organizations Need to See Complete Data Security Picture
- Just Deal with It!
- Waiting for Health Leaders to Take Action on Mobile Data Security Concerns
- Preparing for a Working Summer
- Keeping On-the-Go Data Safe and Secure