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Can Twitter Help Healthcare?
Twitter turns seven today and to mark the occasion here are seven reasons why healthcare professionals should be on Twitter. #1. You can build trust in and raise awareness of your healthcare messages #2. Many medical journals now use Twitter to release their latest content #3. It’s easy to interact with established and potentials colleagues […]
BYOD Invades the Operating Room
By Stacey Higginbotham. Much like enterprises are using more consumer technology (or consumer-like) technology, hospitals are also trying to figure out how shifts in user interfaces, voice recognition and other developments should make their way into their treatments. While the medical profession has a reputation for being somewhat stodgy, there are hints it is looking […]
iPads and Kids in the Emergency Room: Less Scary
A trip to the emergency room is a scary experience when you’re a kid. First of all you’re hurt or sick. That’s bad enough, but then you come to a strange place where doctors and nurses in funny outfits start poking and prodding and asking confusing questions.
Does Your Doctor Like Technology? Social Media?
Technology Paneldiscussed the ways in which new technologies are contributing to the patient/physician relationship. The panel which included Denise Silber (founder of Doctors 2.0), Jamie Tripp Utitus (MS survivor and health blogger) and Renza Sciblia (diabetes consumer and health blogger) Relationships in medicine are as important now as they were in the past. The difference is that today’s […]
Robots Let Doctors ‘Beam’ into Remote US Hospitals
The doctor isn’t in, but he can still see you now. Hospitals in the U.S. are now using telemedicine robots to leverage the specialists they have better and more efficiently. Via the robot, the doctor can see, hear and speak to the patient, and have access to clinical data and medical images. The robot has […]
Industry To Watch In 2014: Healthcare Tech
by Iiya Pozin Healthcare is miles behind the curve when it comes to technological innovation, an industry that historically has not been easy to innovate for. This month’s implementation of Obamacare, however, is just one of several macro trends in the space that could well create “the perfect storm” for entrepreneurship, positioning healthcare tech as […]
Healthcare Predictive Analytics and the HIPAA Omnibus Rule
By Ed Burns — Healthcare predictive analytics holds so much promise: The technology could help hospitals understand which patients are most likely to need follow-up care, therefore reducing readmissions. It could also assist primary care doctors in managing large patient populations with diverse illnesses. “In the real world, data doesn’t move for free very often. […]
How useful are patient portals for increasing patient engagement?
Posted by Ella Buitenman | November 27, 2013 Lately we hear a lot about so called ‘patient portals’. On November 12th we had a conference about elderly care in the Netherlands. Patient portals were mentioned. A few days later an article about the portal MijnGezondheid.net appeared on a Dutch website about ehealth. The most obvious reason for […]
