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With some federal agency either launching or crowning the winner of a new developer contest seemingly every week these days, Wil Yu, HHS special assistant of innovations and research and director of ONC's SHARP program, discusses the challenges' true value -- and explains what happens after the winners collect their prizes.
"We're in a classically disruptive moment right now," said newly-minted U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, speaking Monday at the Healthcare Experience Design (HxD) conference, "from which more good will come than we can possibly imagine."
Many physicians are gung-ho about their smart phones and tablets, but John Halamka, MD, warns there is also a downside, distracting doctors from patient care.
Christopher Wasden, managing director of PricewaterhouseCoopers, shows off his favorite mHealth apps and devices working together as his connected personal health record and discusses the problems with interoperability and integration with most PHRs in this clip from his HIT X.0 presentation at HIMSS12.
With mobile technology evolving every few months, keeping up with the devices' changing role in the workplace can be tough. Even though their effectiveness is being debated, bring your own device (BYOD) programs are popping up left and right, offering employees the comfort and ease of having their personal mobile devices in the office. Randy DeLorenzo helps outline six keys to developing a BYOD program for healthcare.
Officials at Emmi Solutions, a healthcare communication company, announced that its interactive patient engagement programs are now fully functional on smartphones and tablets.
With the release of the third-generation iPad, we look back through the device's history in healthcare, and examine the ways physicians, patients and IT professionals have used it. Here are 11 stages of the iPad's history in healthcare.
Partners HealthCare and its Center for Connected Health is offering its Partners Step It Up program to elementary students at six Boston public schools this year. The program incorporates technology, educational feedback and a team-oriented virtual foot race to raise awareness about the importance of daily activity and good health.
We sit down with Tom Giannulli, MD, CMIO at Epocrates, to demo Epocrates' new iPad EHR, one of only a handful of dedicated iPad EHR offerings at HIMSS12. Dr Giannuli walks us through some of the EHR screens, explains how physician practices can begin using the EHR, and tells us how the Epocrates EHR will help physicians meet meaningful use requirements.
In this video, Karen Farrell, Director of Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) at Nuance Healthcare, gives us a closer look at two Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) products announced at HIMSS12.