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Zero clients speed hospital care, lower energy bills
Doctors and nurses at Seattle Children's Hospital are making use of zero-client devices (also known as ultra-thin clients) to pull up patients' data at their bedsides, and meanwhile the devices are
JCAHO bans physician text messaging
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has issued a ban on physicians texting patient information, concluding that it's not acceptable for medical professionals to
Research: Mobile health app market to quadruple by 2016
A new study from ABI Research predicts the overall mobile health app market will nearly quadruple to $400 million by the year 2016, up from $120 million in 2010. The largest growth potential for
My doctor opens a personal healthcare portal
This has been a historic week for healthcare in the United States, with the passage of the Health Care Reform bill . Just recently my doctor's practice instituted a personal healthcare portal for each
Can ECM organize the U.S. healthcare system?
It's impossible to read or watch anything these days in the U.S. without running into the issue of healthcare. Alan Perez-Sharpe, an analyst with CMS Watch, is concerned that any large-scale attempts
Healthcare records management needs to offer providers incentives
This past week, I spent a day at the MIT CIO conference in Cambridge, MA, and had the pleasure of watching the Connected Healthcare Systems session, which was by far the most interesting one of the
SPSS Predictive Analytics manages Special Olympics health initiative
Special Olympics International has found an ally in technology. Special Olympics uses sports training and competition to help individuals with intellectual disabilities become physically fit,
