Microsoft continues to develop its Surface application for the medical field. Infusion has a good review of its Doctor-Patient Consultation Interface. There is no question there is value in any tool that instructs and informs patients regarding disease processes and treatment options. Nothing quite replaces visual images for educational impact. There is also a nice [...]
Archive for the ‘Future of Medicine’ category
Microsoft Surface – Revisited
May 12, 2010Excellence in Healthcare
May 3, 2010I am currently attending Providence Health System’s leadership forum in Seattle, WA and was delighted to discover that our keynote speaker this morning was Dr. Atul Gawande MD. His passion is improving the quality of healthcare and is an author who has written extensively on the subject. He is also an excellent public speaker. For [...]
Meaningful Use Q&A
April 23, 2010Just a quick follow up on my last post – Healthcare IT News has a Q&A forum that deals specifically with ARRA and Meaningful Use. The questions already asked expressed common concerns and are often quite insightful. Technorati tags: emr, ehr, meaningful use, healthcare it, ARRA
Meaningful Use
April 21, 2010In December of 2009 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published its Proposed Rule defining Meaningful Use and began a 60-day period for public commentary. This opportunity for input has recently closed and after reviewing the comments, CMS will issue a final rule. The criteria for meeting Meaningful Use are divided into “Objectives for [...]
Order Sets
April 17, 2010Now that my hospital has committed to implementing an enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) that will include Computer Physician Order Management we face the daunting task of converting over 300 paper-based order sets into the electronic format. The project team overseeing this process faces two challenges that have the potential of derailing the the project’s [...]
Clinical Dashboards
April 15, 2010In follow up to my post on Amalga, I wanted to make everyone aware of an upcoming webinar sponsored by Healthcare IT News. Parrish Medical Center has been able to reduce mortality by more than 30% and reduce non-ICU “code blues” by more than 76%, using the Thomson Reuters application Clinical Xpert CareFocus. These are [...]
eHospital?
March 30, 2010My post on Amalga Hospital Information Systems generated a fair amount of interest and I was asked to expand somewhat on why I believe this is an important initiative. Let me tell you a story. I was working on the in-patient medicine service late last year when I noted a new patient had been admitted [...]
Here We Go!
October 30, 2007I was pretty sure it was just a matter of time before we saw the advent of medical applications on social networking sites. Medgadget reports the launch of ReliefInSite on Facebook. No doubt this is the beginning of an interesting trend. What’s next, a Facebook Personal Health Record? Could be! Technorati tags: Web 2.0, Health [...]
Round One Goes To… Microsoft!
October 19, 2007I was pretty sure we would be hearing from Google rather quickly in response to Microsoft’s PHR initiative. The details are sketchy, but Computerworld.com posted this story just yesterday and InformationWeek reported on the announcement at the Health 2.0 summit in San Francisco. I wonder if Google will offer the platform approach that Microsoft is [...]
Hospital IT Challenges
October 10, 2007I was recently elected to chair my hospital’s EMR committee. There are several challenges the IT department faces, not the least of which is getting physicians on board with changes that have to be made. The Scobleizer interviews Dr. Christopher Longhurst where he presents a nice summary of the issues involved. The short version (just [...]
