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Better Documents for Healthcare

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:31:40 -0400

New software enables Humana to communicate more effectively with members by using colorful, highly personalized documents to present individual statements of benefits. - Humana, one of the nations largest publicly traded health benefits companies, provides coordinated health insurance to employer groups, government-sponsored plans and individuals. Each year, the company sends more than 20 million explanation of benefits statements (EOBs) to its members, but it learn...

Health Care to Boost IT Spending

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:25:23 -0400

Health-care reform will require billions in IT investment by government agencies to achieve legislative mandates, according to a new report from INPUT. - ...

Innovation: A Healthy Tech Future

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:32:45 -0400

Technology is driving profound changes in the health care arena. Savvy IT executives recognize that the stakes are greater than ever before, and the right systems can drive enormous gains. - Niall Pariag has seen the future of medicine, and its as much about wireless computing, business intelligence (BI) and virtualization as it is about X-rays and MRIs. The senior network administrator at Riverside Health Care Systems, a 400-bed community hospital network in New York state, is well aw...

Rx for Medical Records

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:32:43 -0400

UCLA Health System turns to service-oriented architecture to provide doctors with electronic medical records. - Charles Wang of the UCLA Health System isnt a nurse or a physician, but he spends every day working to improve the care of patients. As the organizations director of architecture since 2002, Wang has integrated hundreds of medical applications and digitized millions of medical records to enable he...

A New Model for Health Care

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:32:40 -0400

The spread of medical technology into the home promises to unleash entirely new ways of treating patients and conducting business. - Accentures Institute for Health amp; Public Service Value reports that forthcoming changes will alter the face of health care more than at any time in the past. The spread of medical technology into the home through the use of monitors, devices, the Internet and smartphones promises to unleash enti...

A Management and Information Perspective on Healthcare

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:59:28 -0400

You would never put up with anything as inefficient as the US healthcare system in your own organization. Maybe we should apply some of the principles you use to the problem. - Its 3 p.m. on a Thursday. Youve got a doctors appointment in an hour; he wants to follow up on a cholesterol drug he prescribed. You turn to the screen on your desk and study the dashboard. All company systems in all regions are in the green zone. The logistics problem in Phoenix yesterday has been ...

Dossia Digs Into Healthcare

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:49:07 -0400

Can a non-profit consortium tackle some of healthcare's biggest issues? Dossia aims to find out -- with Wal-Mart as a key testing environment. - Want more on this topic? See a slideshow here. Reducing healthcare costs and inefficiencies by providing electronic health records to individuals has long been one of those goals that keep receding into the future. Now Dossia, a non-profit consortium of large companies committed to providing e...

10 Ways Wal-Mart Uses IT to Improve Healthcare

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:03:18 -0400

Personal Health Records could help fix America's healthcare crisis. According to Dossia, a non-profit consortium of large companies, including Wal-Mart, committed to providing electronic records to employees, advantages better health and lower costs.

For an in-depth view of Dossia, click here. - ...

Beating the Nursing Shortage

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:36:38 -0500

Automated staffing via web software helps ease the nursing crunch. - Tired of spending $8 million to $10 million a year to hire nurses from outside employment agencies, St. John Health in Detroit decided to create an in-house nursing employment agency. The health provider has succeeded, thanks to ShiftWise, a Web-based staff-management application. With seven hosp...

Securing Patient Data

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:33:44 -0500

As more health care providers make patient information available over the Web and on wireless devices, security and patient privacy are foremost on IT administrators minds. - As more health care providers make patient information available over the Web and on wireless devices, security and patient privacy are foremost on IT administrators minds. They use all the traditional layers of security, including firewalls, intrusion detection tools, and anti-virus and anti-spywar...

Building a Health Care IT Infrastructure

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:32:41 -0500

An emerging nationwide health network that will enable government agencies and private sector players to exchange health care records electronically. - The federal government has developed software that will allow government agencies and private health care providers to connect their IT systems to an emerging nationwide health network that will enable them to exchange health care records electronically in the future. Its part of a larger public-p...

Giving Health Care a Dose of IT

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:31:29 -0500

Hospitals and medical clinics invest in technology to improve patient safety, save money, boost efficiency and position themselves for the future. - Hospitals, medical clinics and doctors in private practice have long discussed the need to improve health care with information technology such as computerizing patient records but few have done it because of the cost and complexity. The Fallon Clinic in Massachusetts is among those taking action an...

Wikipedia Often Omits Important Drug Information

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:46:07 -0500

Dr. Kevin A. Clauson of Nova Southeastern University in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and his colleagues found few factual errors in their evaluation of Wikipedia entries on 80 drugs, but some entries were often missing important information. - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows. Dr. Kevin A. Clauson of Nova Southeastern University in Palm B...

Tech Looks to Raise Bets on Healthcare

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:29:08 -0500

Expectations for an overhaul of the U.S. health system following the election of Barack Obama as president and a desire of governments worldwide to drive costs of national health systems reinforce the belief that healthcare is an opportunity that tech companies underestimate at their own peril. Industrial giants like General Electric , Siemens and Philips have long competed in the health field and all expect even more growth. - LONDON (Reuters) - An aging population, spiraling medical costs and increasingly poor service are spurring more computer firms to bet on healthcare and what many of them see as a lucrative -- but relatively untapped -- market. Expectations for an overhaul of the U.S. health system following the ...

Gates Urges Rich Countries Not to Cut Health Aid

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:43:15 -0500

Echoing comments made last week by U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist, said the world's poorest people will suffer the most during the economic slowdown, and said a "strong voice" was needed to keep them a global priority. - NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday said he was worried the global financial crisis he says could last two to three years might drive rich countries to cut back spending on health aid for the developing world. Echoing comments made last week by U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon...