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 [...]
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Microsoft Surface – Revisited
May 12, 2010Microsoft Amalga
March 25, 2010The hospital I work for has recently contracted with Microsoft to begin exploring how health care organizations can begin applying the Amalga Hospital Information System to the clinical aspects of patient care. Like almost every hospital in the United States, we struggle with the fact that our patient information is stored across disparate databases. This is the result [...]
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 [...]
Desktop vs. Mobile
October 13, 2007Our outpatient clinic has just finished the conversion from using mobile devices (laptops and motions) to providing desktop computers in every patient examination room. The decision to switch was difficult, but for us it was the right one. We found that our wireless network was simply not up to the task of providing a stable working [...]
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 [...]
InkSeine
September 6, 2007My brother Jame Healy passed along a heads up regarding Microsoft’s Inkseine. It ranks way up there on the cool scale. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m having trouble seeing a clinical application. I do admire its intuitive feel, speed, and ease of use. It would be helpful in quickly pulling together treatment plans and Internet resources for interested [...]
An Apple a Day…
August 4, 2007I’ve posted on this before, but I’m wondering if the iPhone might point toward a huge step forward over current PDA capabilities. I’m not sure that continually updated medical reference material (as discussed at MedGadget) is very helpful, but what about in-patient vital signs, point-of-care glucose levels, labs, etc. Take Diabetic Ketoacidosis for example. Like most doc’s I find treatment of DKA [...]
Data Mining
July 10, 2007This presentation on world poverty by Dr. Hans Rosling at last year’s TED Conference demonstrates a very creative approach to demographic facts and figures. I had no idea that this could be so informative and entertaining. I also appreciated his call to moving the world’s data into the public domain. Nice job. Technorati tags: ted, ted conference, poverty, [...]
iPhone
July 9, 2007medGadget gives a nice look at an web-based EHR application that can be accessed using an iPhone. While the marketing pitch is a little over the top, the future of electronic charting just might look very similar. Technorati tags: iPhone, medGadget, medicine, ehr
Wireless vs. Desktop
July 4, 2007After 2 years of using a wireless EHR system our office has decided to transition to hardwired desktop computers. We had initially decided to work with wireless laptops because the reasons seemed sound at the time. They offer portability, less clutter in the examining room, and flexibility of use. For example I can easily position [...]
