Healthcare executives in the U.S., Europe and Asia are seeing both risks and opportunities as the pace of change in the healthcare industry accelerates globally, according to a new UPS survey. Facing unprecedented demands to reduce costs, keep up with fast-changing regulatory requirements and ramp ...
Read More →As hospitals and physician practices continue to progress to electronic health record systems, challenges have been created by the sheer volume and quality of raw data that goes into EHRs. Advanced software and interoperability are helping to balance different aspects of electronic data, such as...
Read More →While millions of women are experiencing symptoms that could indicate a serious bleeding disorder, nearly half of them are not discussing those symptoms with their healthcare provider, according to new survey findings. The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) commissioned an online surve...
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Half of respondents in an IDC Health Insights survey in Europe and Russia are not aware of the number and nature of security events that have occurred in their organization in the past 12 months. Though the healthcare industry seems to be positively adopting electronic healthcare management, onl...
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Since the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) implemented new safety goals, there have been new advances in RFID implementation in the Healthcare Industry. The healthcare system uses a wide variety of processes to track patient information, from different types...
Read More →MAXIMUS, Inc. (NYSE:MMS), a leading provider of government services worldwide, announced today that it is now offering eHealth Literacy Services to help state and community programs meet the communication and engagement challenges facing consumers and providers using the new health information techn...
Read More →By tikasmitzonian www.spotarticle.com(Source) Professional medical labs are way more fundamental today than ever ahead of. Medical breakthroughs normally consider put in explore labs considering the fact that that’s in which experiments transpire and clinical health care laboratories are even a...
Read More →Ford researchers demonstrate a series of possible in-car health and wellness connectivity services and apps aimed at helping people with chronic illnesses or medical disorders such as diabetes, asthma or allergies manage their condition while on the go Leveraging Ford SYNC®, researchers developed g...
Read More →In some healthcare settings, smartphones have turned out to be the best mobile option. At UPMC Mercy, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital network, CIO Bruce Haviland started deploying a BlackBerry-based mobile alert system for nurses in October, replacing various wireless ph...
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Since gadget-happy doctors got their hands on the iPad last year, many have turned it from a toy into a professional tool. Dr. Jeffrey Westcott, cardiology board chair at Swedish Medical Center, a four-hospital complex in Seattle, even sees it as a lifesaver. It can “help me avoid mistakes by ...
Read More →Healthcare information technology tops the list of top 10 ‘hot careers’ for college graduates in 2011, according to a new study from the University of San Diego Extension. Due to government initiatives in recent years, the study states, the healthcare industry adopted an advanced technology syst...
Read More →written by maicon www.newsdaily247.com(Source) Health Information technology has transformed the modus operandi of our working. Manual functions have been automated with the development of personal computers, business software and Internet-based intranets. As far as business is concerned, developing...
Read More →Information security-related risks to your business are on the rise and getting worse. The number and complexity of computer viruses, cyber attacks, theft, identity theft, vendor negligence and fraud continue to increase and no organization is immune. Businesses of all sizes, including startups, pri...
Read More →Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is creativity that brought information technology into medicine. While some advances such as telemedicine, and electronic medical records are now used widely, it is still the gadget-friendly specialists who have slowly brought these devices by the han...
Read More →Patients are supposed to be the ultimate beneficiaries of the federal government’s electronic health records incentive programs. But there is another group that is benefiting from the EHR push — IT professionals. In fact, even as the unemployment rate went up throughout the past few years, local...
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