How to Efficiently Optimize Existing Health IT Infrastructures
At HIMSS14, infrastructure was on the minds of many attendees. In the above video, AirStrip CEO Alan Portela talks about how healthcare organizations can economically optimize technology...
View ArticleThe Impact of Healthcare Data Breaches
The U.S. federal government recognizes the risk of data breaches to the healthcare industry and has enacted laws to mandate protection of personally identifiable information. This information,...
View ArticleGrowing Concern about Healthcare Privacy, But What to Do?
A recent Reuters / Ipsos poll finds that 51 percent of Americans are spooked by Internet companies and their growing ambitions, “with a majority worried that Internet companies are encroaching too much...
View ArticleWhy You Need Cloud Security for Health IT
Security breaches can be costly for healthcare organizations and put vital patient data at risk. As the role of cloud computing becomes more prevalent, the need for security remains a hot topic for...
View ArticleProviding More Patient-Level Data
Below is the latest in a series of guest posts from Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH, the commissioner of health for the state of New York. Look for more of his blogs in the Intel Health & Life Sciences...
View ArticleWhat to Do with Legacy Healthcare Enterprise Solutions
Mixing old and new technologies is a pain point for many healthcare CIOs. Recently, we caught up with Jeff Fleming, Vice President Americas for Carestream, who talked about legacy healthcare...
View ArticleThe Rise of Patient Empowerment
Technology is pushing patient participation to new levels. How is this trend changing the face of healthcare IT infrastructures? In the above video, CDW business development manager Kimberly Krisik...
View ArticleAnalytics at Core of Patient Care
In the above video, Saurabh Swarup, practice leader for healthcare analytics at Dell Services, talks about why healthcare is behind on utilizing analytics, and how analytics will ultimately be at the...
View ArticleHow GATK is Advancing Genomic Analysis
As we get closer to the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo next week, we’re taking a more focused look at analytics this week and how data impacts both clinical health IT and genomic research...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Data Integration and Mobile Platforms Combine?
As Bio-IT World approaches next week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Robert...
View ArticleHow to Make Health IT Analytics Useful
The convergence of clinical analytics and genomic data in healthcare is well underway. That’s why we recently gathered a panel of experts to discuss how analytics can be turned into powerful...
View ArticleHead in the Cloud(s)?
As Bio-IT World approaches next week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Phil...
View ArticleHow to Make Health IT Data Actionable
Making big data actionable is one of the key components of healthcare analytics. It’s on the mind of many CMIOs who are planning for the explosion of data coming into their infrastructures. In the...
View ArticleBio IT: Getting to the Heart of Traumatic Brain Injury
As Bio-IT World approaches this week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Dr. Pek...
View ArticleMobile Tablet Devices Impacting Health IT
How big is mobility in today’s health IT environment? In the above video, Scott Rehling, senior manager of strategic channels at Motion Computing, talks about the growing trend toward mobility in...
View ArticleThe Eight-Year Journey to Accountable Care: Part I
Now that the healthcare industry can work with clarity on care coordination strategies and programs, a new expansion of ACO models, trends in patient behavior and the companion issue of provider scope...
View ArticleThe Eight-Year Journey to Accountable Care: Part II
See Part I of Justin Barnes' ACO blog Statetate Medicaid officials are moving quickly to understand and establish accountable care models around community ACOs, provider-led programs or hybrid...
View ArticleBroadening the Nature of Interoperability
As the headlines surrounding Stage 2 focus on specific interoperability tied to summary of care, information exchange in many forms is really the broader theme as meaningful use helps drive care...
View ArticleTurning CIOs into Chief Interoperability Officers
Below is a guest blog post from Tee Green, president and chief executive officer of Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. Should every health system, hospital or group practice CIO know that to do...
View ArticleHealth IT, Emergency Preparedness and Public Health IOM Forum: Presenting a...
I recently joined a panel of learned colleagues working in public health, telemedicine and acute care at an Institute of Medicine (IOM) forum focusing on the state of our nation’s healthcare system...
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