Making money with mobile healthcare applications takes much more effort than most developers expected. mHealth apps normally do not get into the app stores’ top ranking lists and thus do not receive high download numbers. But there are working business models for the mHealth applications. Within the mobile health app category revenue won’t be generated [...]
Mobile Health Market: Sensor-Based Mobile Apps Show How M-Health Business Models Could Work
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Curaspan Hospital Customers Cut Readmission Rate to Below National Average – Saving an Average of $1.5 Million
March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hospitals using the Web-based eDischarge™ software-as-a-service (SaaS) application have significantly cut readmissions overall for the second year in a row and in 2010 saved on average about $1.5 million each, according to Curaspan Health Group, the industry leader in building secure electronic patient-transition networks for hospitals, post-acute providers and suppliers to optimize patient care. “This [...]
New Report Shows that Healthcare Leaders are Facing Capital Challenges in 2011
March 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The newest Healthleaders Media Intelligence Report shows indicates that nearly half of all healthcare leaders have delayed capital projects and 40% have eliminated some projects in 2011 due to the economic crisis. According to the report the challenging economic climate continues to force financial leaders to make cuts and get creative with budgets. The [...]
Use Business Intelligence Technology to Manage and Mine the Mountain of Data Your Hospital Generates
March 7, 2011 By 3 Comments
Hospitals across the country are facing mounting pressure to improve operations in all areas. Legal requirements, an aging population and shrinking insurance payments are forcing hospitals to do more with less. At the same time changes in healthcare information technology are generating ever-growing quantities of data. Data that if property managed and understood could help [...]
Recap of my first day at HIMSS11
February 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
First comment is Wow – this place is enormous. I’ve been to some of the largest trade shows in the world and HIMSS is right up there with the largest of them. Second comment is wow – people really dress well here. I’m more used to technology conferences where jeans and cleverly worded t-shirts are [...]
KLAS Adds Vendor Performance Alerts and Peer Collaboration Tools
February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
KLAS today announced two new tools to help providers and vendors receive immediate performance data and to put healthcare IT users in touch with their peers. KLAS Alert enables newly detected trends impacting healthcare technology to be reported more quickly. In the past, providers have waited for the publication of a KLAS specialty report to [...]
Heartland Regional Medical Center Selects Voalté iPhones for Nurses
February 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
Nothing to do with EMR/EHR but it is a cool technology and I’m a sucker for iPhone apps in health care. FYI the name Voalté is derived from Voice, Alarm, Text which are all combined in this iPhone App. SARASOTA, Fla. Feb. 8, 2011 – Nurses and other point-of-care workers at Heartland Regional Medical Center [...]
Finally – Someone has written an EHR for Dummies Book!
February 7, 2011 By 3 Comments
If you’re anything like me, and you’ve been in the technology business for any length of time you probably have a small library of “dummies” books as reference material. The publishers do a wonderful job of selecting expert authors and getting them to write in a style that is easy to read and to understand. [...]
TeleHealth Services and Central Baptist Hospital Launch Interactive Patient Education Initiative in Preparation for Meaningful Use
December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
TeleHealth Services, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare-grade televisions and interactive patient education solutions, today announced an extended partnership with Central Baptist Hospital. The 383-bed hospital, an early adopter to on-demand education, implemented TIGR as their interactive patient education and entertainment solution as a part of their “meaningful use” project, and the further utilization of [...]
Hospital Auxilio Mutuo an EHR Pioneer with McKesson Paragon® HIS
November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a move to improve patient care and financial performance, the largest hospital in the Caribbean has successfully implemented McKesson’s Paragon® hospital information system (HIS). With this deployment, Puerto Rico-based Hospital Auxilio Mutuo has become one of the first Caribbean hospitals to implement electronic health records (EHRs) for its patients and provide its caregivers with [...]
