While countless online practice-improvement resources exist, there is an acute need for help in safety-net primary care, especially as the U.S. healthcare industry slowly shifts away from fee-for-service to outcomes-based care. That is the idea behind the new Primary Care Information Network.
Dell Healthcare & Life Sciences announced Monday morning that it has hired Dr. Nick van Terheyden as its new CMO. Van Terheyden comes over from Nuance Communications, where he served as CMIO for five years.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
One of the enduring critiques of texting, instant messaging, e-mail and any other form of text-only online communication is that often is impossible to discern nuance and emotion. The same might be true in social media.
While Twitter-owned Periscope has been in general release only since March — and just since last month as an Android app — a handful of physicians are quickly becoming pros with the video-streaming app.
Ed Bennett, manager of web operations at the University of Maryland Medical System, has a message for anyone involved in healthcare social media: It's 2015, so stop acting like it's 2005 or even 2014.
An oncologist sees potential for oncology hashtag project to use social media as source of oncology education and advocacy.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Why have providers fought even the modest requirement in Stage 2 Meaningful Use that 5 percent of patients view, download or transmit health data through a portal or personal health record? Two tweets from Health Datapalooza tell the story.
Cybersecurity is becoming a greater challenge for the healthcare industry, costing the system $6 billion annually. Since medical information contains patient Social Security numbers, addresses and insurance information, hackers seek out the places that store all of this information together: hospitals. Healthcare data breaches accounted for 43 percent of all breaches in 2014. More recently, […]
The combination of social media and mobility are changing how people consume information, and healthcare marketers should take notice.
BMJ Publishing Group's 20th annual International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare opened Wednesday morning in London. Attendees were shown this video today, about a terminally ill, elderly woman rediscovering her passion for singing even while dying.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Twitter is emerging as another tool for predictive analytics in healthcare. By collecting and mapping the location of tweets with keywords such as "asthma," "inhaler" and "wheezing," mining the EHR at Parkland Memorial Hospital, then comparing to air-quality reports in the Dallas area, researchers were able to predict asthma-related emergency department traffic with 75 percent accuracy.
The #himsselfie collection was pretty nice again this year. But I've got a feeling that if HIMSS did selfies again in 2016 it would be pretty OMG so lame. So let's use HIMSS 2015 to say farewell to #himsselfie.
The quest for quality, accurate health information knows no bounds – even on April Fools Day. Google Health made an update Wednesday to its new approach to providing online health information. It now offers in-depth information every time someone searches for “cerebral hyperphagia.” That’s the medical term for “zombie infection.” “It’s an important update as […]
I woke this morning in a cold sweat as I found myself wrestling with a thought. Am I Big Brother? The explosion of social media in our society, and at medical meetings in particular, is changing how our society, and medical professionals in particular, work and interact. There is potential for tremendous good: social media […]
Another startup has jumped into the healthcare social media space, hoping to capitalize on the evolving web habits of young physicians and med students. But unlike others that have emerged in the area, Boston-based Medstro is looking to not only seize the web for collaboration, but also hosting events and collaborative competitions that it hopes will spur […]