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LTC Geesey of the Army's MC4 unit discusses early successes, the telemedicine suite currently in development, and how the Army intends to embrace tablets, smartphones, and a hands-free EHR.
Migration to electronic medical records requires balancing benefits and challenges -- privacy, security, compliance, and fraud.
The iPhone 4S will be available on October 14, and one expert says Apple's new release "certainly boosts its suitability for healthcare applications." But one team of UC Davis researchers didn't need an upgrade to transform their iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.
Examining the three approaches to ensuring the records public health agencies receive can be linked accurately to their Master Patient Index entries.
It's hard to overstate the impact Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, has had on technology for the past 30 years. In hardware, software, communications and design, Apple's contributions have been incalculable – not least in healthcare.
Lynne Thomas Gordon, the new CEO of the American Health Information Management Association, spent her first days on the job at the organization's 83rd annual convention in Salt Lake City this week. She spoke with Healthcare IT News about her expectations and the challenges ahead for the 63,000 member organization.
A survivor recounts real-life practical lessons about building HIEs.
Two surgeons from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are touting the benefits of social media to their colleagues as a way to disseminate accurate information to their trainees and patients.
The title of this commentary is pure jargon, but does express the issue at hand. An alternative title "The Most Important Health Policy Decision Hidden as an Obscure Health IT Technical Evaluation that You May Never Have Heard of," would have also been accurate, but is grammatically unsound and too flippant for an important subject.
Or the most important health policy decision hidden as an obscure health IT technical evaluation that you may never have heard of.