The Key to Healthy IT Systems
The keys to maintaining personal and public health share commonalities with the keys to maintaining IT system health. The Centers for Disease Control published a list of Local Public Health System Performance Standards which lists 10 essential public health services. The first is monitoring health status. This is the first step in maintaining IT system health too. In our previous post mHealth –...
Read MoreEHR: Even in a Disaster Environment
When the life is upset by natural disaster, war and other events, documenting medical care and saving that information for future reference can be both highly beneficial to patient care and highly problematic. Two recent examples of this situation are Hurricane Katrina and the war in Afghanistan. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have been shown to facilitate quality patient care as noted in our...
Read More20+ Federal Healthcare Apps
The federal government has developed several mHealth offerings. A USA.gov page lists 85 federal government mobile apps and mobile websites. 21 of them, or 25%, are healthcare related. Of these, 14 are apps, 6 are mobile websites and one is offered as both an app and a mobile website. Users with mobile devices made by Apple, iPhones and iPads, have the most app choices. Of the 15 healthcare apps...
Read MoreStaffing: Recruit, Train and Retain
In 2008 Forbes named healthcare the largest and fastest growing industry in the nation. While other industries are shrinking, the healthcare industry continues to make strides in growth. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS), the healthcare industry supports approximately 14.3 million jobs. Furthermore, the BLS states the healthcare sector grew by 720,000 jobs from December...
Read MoreTime for a Mobility Strategy?
Better and better mHealth are making increased use of better and better mobile hardware. The availability of high resolution photos, video chat, processing power, GPS service, and robust web browsers has spurred a new generation of apps. Patients are relying them and a new report indicates that the smart phone adoption rate is twice as high among physicians as the general population. With the...
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