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Design thinking and strategies such as empathy interviewing can help IT professionals better understand how to make doctors more productive -- and that ultimately enables them to better serve patients.
In collaboration with ECRI, a new report outlines best practices, suggesting that copy-and-paste data should be easily identifiable, with its original source easy to discern.
On one front, telehealth will become significantly closer to consumers on electronics everyone is very familiar with, the vendor’s CEO says.
Verity Medical Foundation-San Jose Medical Group website, part of the Verity Health System in Redwood, California, was hacked, exposing the data of 10,164 patients. Verity includes six California hospitals, the Verity Medical Foundation and Verity Physician Network.
Researchers say the medical revolution will be akin to low-cost genome sequencing.
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Millions of people are struggling with conditions caused by neurological damage or disease, with impacts ranging from speech problems to total paralysis.
Informaticist Nephi Walton says that the cloud can be used to aggregate and harmonize data and argues that in certain ways it is more secure than what hospitals can handle on their own.
The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine takes an app by app approach to its use of cloud computing, employing technology from Salesforce to build custom applications for clinical care and research.
Beaufort Memorial Hospital has already launched into the cloud with a variety of back-end systems and says it will move its enterprise and clinical systems to the cloud in the next 18 to 24 months.
An executive cautions that the biggest challenge with cloud computing in healthcare is the contract organizations sign with vendors of cloud services.
