Big Brother Meets Big Data and Likes What He Sees
Heart Gadgets Test Limits Of Privacy Laws on Health offers a provocative look at the rivers of data collected by implanted cardiac defibrillators. Basically, reams of raw data are being…
Data Mining as an Essential Informatics Skill Set
Clinical Integrated Data Repositories are now become common at academic medical centers. With tools like i2b2 and RemedyMD, plus a broad range of analytic tools, access to large volumes of…
UC Irvine Medical and Computer Science Students Team Up for First-Ever Med AppJam
Medical and computer science students rarely mingle in the same conference room, much less the same part of campus, but as the intersection between technology and healthcare continues to widen,…
Person-Centered HealthCare – Patient Safety, Team STEPPS & Technology
Not long ago, I got to think back on my roles as hospital safety officer and incorporate some of the challenges I faced with my current work leveraging technologies to…
Telemedicine and the PCP Cliff
Everyone on Capitol Hill seems focused on the so-called “fiscal cliff” - January 1st. Not on the radar, though, is the rapidly approaching cliff involving primary care physicians, PCPs. Everyone on Capitol Hill seems focused on the so-called “fiscal…
Should People Who Cause Their Own Illnesses Pay for Their Own Health Care?
David Friedmanweighs in: David Friedmanweighs in:I recently came across a news story about a British legislator who proposed that patients suffering from life style illnesses, medical problems mainly due to…
Portable UV Disinfector To Control Hospital Acquired Infections
Technology provides hospitals with tools which can greatly improve their quality of care. This small portable disinfector is one such tool.Hospital acquired infection is an age old problem which refuses…
Save a Fetus, Kill a Woman?
So, the (mainly white male) anti-abortion activists in Mississippi are probably a hootin’ and a hollerin.’ They have (almost) succeeded in shutting down the one and only abortion clinic…
Ensuring That Low Dose is the Right Dose
The lower dose radiation mantra has been repeated so loud and so long that some in the radiologic community think that it has lost its power. Siemens Healthcare has an…
Siemens’ Brave New iWorld for Imaging
We’re a mobility-based world these days, so what’s keeping the iPad out of the ER or the OR or from being used by radiologists and physicians consulting on the same…
