Paper Kills: The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative
ScribeMedia’s Peter Cervieri recently sat down with Microsoft’s Health Care Industry Director, Bill Crounse, to talk about healthcare information technology and general industry trends. According to Crounse, America is “the worst of the worst” among industrialized nations in healthcare IT, but there are some promising initiatives on the horizon.
One of the most exciting developments is […]
Connecting the Dots: A Dynamic Evolving Vision
Knowledge is powerful medicine. It reduces healthcare costs and improves the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of care delivered.
Patients and their caregivers are empowered by using new communication technologies so as to improve their access to health knowledge (and even wisdom), self-care, decision support, referral, consultation and triage services.
The current trend towards consumer-driven healthcare and […]
How Social Computing is Transforming the Healthcare Industry
At the forefront of a wave of innovation and entrepreneurialism taking place in online healthcare, OrganizedWisdom (http://www.organizedwisdom.com) is a health-focused social network for consumers, physicians and anyone with health wisdom to share. Leveraging the “Wisdom of Crowds,” OrganizedWisdom aligns doctor-reviewed and user-generated health content to help people make better health decisions. Its patent-pending technology […]
e-Learning in the Hospital
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Social Media Takes Health Care By Storm
Sermo (http://www.sermo.com), the fastest growing online community created by physicians for physicians, has already seen the impact of its mission to improve patient care positively influencing the practice of medicine in the U.S. Thousands of Physicians across all specialties are now relying on Sermo regularly to ask questions of each other and post observations […]
Interview: Robin Felder, Medical Automation Research Center, University of Virginia
Robin wants to eliminate health insurance companies and create a single payor system combined with Health Savings Accounts. The government would act as a safety net for catastrophic situations.
Technology will only be useful if it applies to the proper financial infrastrure. Why not create Health Savings Plans and incentivize people to judiciously manage their health […]
Interview: Bill Crounse, Microsoft
At the Consumer Health World Conference in DC I had a chance to catch up with Bill Crounse, Health Care Industry Director for Microsoft, to talk about the role technology can play in health care.
Everyone is focused on providing higher quality care, lower cost, and better service. 80% of health care business in the […]
