Mobile Workstations From The Editor

  1. Motorola Acquisition Gives Google Another Play In Healthcare 8/24/2011
    Many believed the demise of Google Health all but ended Google's prominence in the healthcare industry. However, the company may have given itself new life in the healthcare technology sector with its acquisition of Motorola Mobility earlier this month.
  2. 4 Reasons Why Now Is The Time For Telehealth 8/17/2011
    Over the past two years, I’ve written several articles about the potential impact telehealth technologies can have on the U.S. healthcare system. However, a few obstacles (e.g. reimbursement issues, physician collaboration requirements, etc.) have prevented telehealth from achieving widespread adoption.
  3. The Medical Device Hacking Threat 8/10/2011
    Wireless medical devices have the potential to revolutionize the delivery of care, particularly for the real-time and remote management of chronic diseases such as diabetes. Evidently, these devices are also susceptible to attacks by hackers, which can ultimately result in the death of the patient.
  4. A Trip Down Health IT Memory Lane 8/4/2011
    Believe it or not, this article marks the 100th editorial opinion column I’ve written for Health IT Outcomes. To commemorate this milestone, I planned to take a page out of television sitcoms.
  5. HIT Must 'Go Rural' 7/27/2011

    What’s the answer to accommodating rural patient growth and improving the overall quality of rural patient care? Well, it all begins with multidisciplinary teamwork in rural primary care and greater provider collaboration between rural and urban care systems. Instrumental in these and other initiatives will be health IT.

  6. ICD-10: Healthcare's New Y2K 7/21/2011
    Twelve to fifteen years ago the IT community was abuzz with Y2K activity. IT departments around the world were busy updating their systems in preparation for the new millennium, ensuring computer systems were equipped to account for the date change to ’00.
  7. Digitize Healthcare AP Processes 7/14/2011
    The ERP (enterprise resource planning) system is a fundamental business tool for most organizations. Hospitals are no exception. However, many of these ERP systems have difficulty incorporating and accommodating document processes.
  8. E-Prescribing Software: Not A Cure All 7/6/2011
    Another study has emerged that calls into question the effectiveness of information technology at solving the healthcare industry’s problems. This study titled, “Errors Associated With Outpatient Computerized Prescribing Systems,” was recently published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and explored the error rates associated with the e-prescribing systems in use by physicians today.
  9. Google Health Flatlines 6/30/2011
    Rumors of the expected demise of Google Health have been circulating for months now, and these allegations were finally validated in a press announcement released by Google on June 24. According to the company, the public site will shut down on January 1, 2012 and active users of Google Health will be able to download their health data for an additional year beyond that.
  10. 4G mHealth: Possibilities & Pipe Dreams 6/23/2011
    In the world of mobile technology, 4G (fourth generation) cellular is the latest and greatest thing. It seems like every other television commercial boasts the multimedia and data rich transmission capabilities that 4G bandwidth can provide consumers.