At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Atlanta this month, Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco HealthPresence™ platform. Cisco staff described HealthPresence as “an advanced, care-at-a-distance technology platform that allows patients to connect with doctors and clinicians for health care consultations.”
From Republican leaders to communications company CEOs to physicians in leadership positions, keynote speakers at this month’s HIMSS meeting had a great deal of good news and strong opinions about the importance of Information Technology. Just walking around among the other 40,000 people was often enough to pick up insights into technology trends to watch [...]
NEW HOME-TO-HOSPITAL CONNECTED CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM AT MASS GENERAL’S PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PUTS ATTENDING DOCTORS AT PATIENT BEDSIDE 24/7 The eleven-year-old girl – for privacy we will call her Michele – was admitted to the MassGeneral Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at 2:00 am with respiratory distress. The on-call attending physician evaluated Michele, [...]
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Health Care Policy & Research, the only research center focused on studying home health care in the U.S., has received funding from The Center for Technology and Aging to test state-of-the art information technology (IT) strategies designed to help elderly patients with cognitive impairment [...]
BALTIMORE, MD — Newswise — January 28 — National home care and health care leaders kicked off an 18-month national home-health quality-improvement campaign this month at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.
Two nurses have won recognition as emerging leaders in the field of nursing informatics, selected by the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) to participate in a jointly supported Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program. ANI and its Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program are jointly supported by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
According to research released late last month by Citrix, organizations are increasingly looking to Web conferencing technologies to cut costs and improve productivity. The study, “Web Conferencing Training Trends 2010: North America,” found that training is a major driver of this trend. The report is the result of a survey exploring the motivation of trainers in North America for their use of Web conferencing. The short online survey, conducted by 1080 Group, LLC on behalf of Citrix Online gathered 437 responses in September 2009.
