http://www.baselinemag.com Health Care - RSS Feeds en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:04:08 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:04:08 -0500 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:59:28 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/A-Management-and-Information-Perspective-on-Healthcare-878416/?kc=rss - 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 ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/A-Management-and-Information-Perspective-on-Healthcare-878416/?kc=rss Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:49:07 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Dossia-Digs-Into-Healthcare-216481/?kc=rss - 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...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Dossia-Digs-Into-Healthcare-216481/?kc=rss Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:03:18 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/10-Ways-WalMart-Uses-IT-to-Improve-Healthcare-337311/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/10-Ways-WalMart-Uses-IT-to-Improve-Healthcare-337311/?kc=rss Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:36:38 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Beating-the-Nursing-Shortage/?kc=rss - 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...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Beating-the-Nursing-Shortage/?kc=rss Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:33:44 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Securing-Patient-Data/?kc=rss - 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...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Securing-Patient-Data/?kc=rss Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:32:41 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Building-a-Health-Care-IT-Infrastructure/?kc=rss - 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...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Building-a-Health-Care-IT-Infrastructure/?kc=rss Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:31:29 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Giving-Health-Care-a-Dose-of-IT/?kc=rss - 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...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Giving-Health-Care-a-Dose-of-IT/?kc=rss Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:46:07 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Wikipedia-Often-Omits-Important-Drug-Information/?kc=rss - 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...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Wikipedia-Often-Omits-Important-Drug-Information/?kc=rss Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:29:08 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Tech-Looks-to-Raise-Bets-on-Healthcare/?kc=rss - 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 ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Tech-Looks-to-Raise-Bets-on-Healthcare/?kc=rss Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:43:15 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Gates-Urges-Rich-Countries-Not-to-Cut-Health-Aid/?kc=rss - 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...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Gates-Urges-Rich-Countries-Not-to-Cut-Health-Aid/?kc=rss Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:51:47 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Intel-Gets-FDA-OK-for-Personal-Health-System/?kc=rss - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Intel Corp, the world's biggest computer chip maker, on Thursday won clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell an in-home health monitoring system for patients with chronic conditions. The system, called Health Guide, combines an in-home patient device as ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Intel-Gets-FDA-OK-for-Personal-Health-System/?kc=rss Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:59:04 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Are-Privacy-Standards-Enough-to-Push-Electronic-Health-Records/?kc=rss - Google, Microsoft, WebMD, Dossia and other major technology providers in the burgeoning PHR (personal health record) niche are all hopeful that a new privacy and security standard released last week will be just the catalyst they need to give consumers more control over their digital health care...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Are-Privacy-Standards-Enough-to-Push-Electronic-Health-Records/?kc=rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:26:53 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/InternetBased-Care-Aids-Blood-Pressure-Control/?kc=rss - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Advice and medications delivered via the Internet, along with home blood pressure (BP) monitoring, lets people with high blood pressure get their condition under control, researchers have reported in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Beverl...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/InternetBased-Care-Aids-Blood-Pressure-Control/?kc=rss Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:37:02 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Forget-Nimda-Microsoft-Wants-to-Battle-Real-Infections-Now/?kc=rss - ORLANDO, Fla. – In its continued push to provide targeted technology tools to the healthcare sector, Microsoft is rolling out new patient monitoring and medical-records processing tools and offering $3 million dollars in development funds for solution providers that improve online healt...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Forget-Nimda-Microsoft-Wants-to-Battle-Real-Infections-Now/?kc=rss Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:14:31 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Google-Cleveland-Clinic-Team-up-on-Medical-Data/?kc=rss - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Web search company Google Inc is collaborating with Cleveland Clinic, one of the premier U.S. health institutions, to pilot an exchange of data that puts patients in charge of their own medical records. The health care industry has been trying to usher in a paperless era for ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Health-Care/Google-Cleveland-Clinic-Team-up-on-Medical-Data/?kc=rss