Mobile
Physicians at Beaufort Memorial Hospital, a 200-bed community hospital in Beaufort, S.C., are poised to embrace texting in a way they've never been able to do before, and CIO Ed Ricks knows it will immediately make a piece of their work easier and faster.
Third quarter results of a venture capital study conducted by Mercom Capital Group showed healthcare IT remaining strong for the fifth quarter in a row, and the outcome of the presidential election is not expected to change that, according to Raj Prabhu, managing partner of Mercom.
After two months of beta testing, Imprivata is going to market with a texting app called Imprivata Cortext. Executives say it will change the lives of physicians -- and their patients. Can a texting app do that? At least one CIO is convinced that it can.
Timothy Bickmore, associate professor at Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science, has been working for the past decade in the area of "relational agents." He says these artificially intelligent avatars are poised for a promising future in healthcare.
Advanced information technology has catapulted healthcare from that of ominous to that of autonomous, with a burgeoning number of robots programming their way into the industry.
By 2014, about 9 million Hispanics will be covered for the first time as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Based on their unique healthcare challenges and very high use of mobile technologies, mHealth offers tremendous potential to improve access, individual behaviors and patient outcomes.
Broadband networks are spurring improved quality and helping lower the cost of care in rural areas by reducing time to access of critical treatment and increasing the resources available to diagnose conditions.
The patient liberation movement is imminent. Weary from being tangled and tethered to hospital beds by medical wires, patients are ready for a new tide of patient care.
Axial Exchange has acquired mRemedy, a mobile healthcare platform founded by Mayo Clinic and Minneapolis-based DoApp.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will help small providers who use smart phones and other mobile devices learn how to easily secure them using simple steps explained in plain language.