Decision Support

Clinical decision support encompasses a variety of electronic tools at the point of care to facilitate decision-making on the part of clinicians. These include electronic order sets, patient alerts, and evidence-based medicine protocols. Stories here encompass the design, creation and implementation of clinical decision support tools as well as the benefits and pitfalls of using them.

What the Heck is Big Data?

Elizabeth Gardner | Mar 19

Like "The Cloud" last year or "Mobile Apps" the year before, it's the I.T. catchphrase that's considered so big it's deemed worthy of double capitalization.

Payers

Hospitals

Group Practices

Data Repositories

Cerner Acquisition Adds to Lab Services

Joseph Goedert | Mar 18

Cerner Corp. has acquired Labotix Automation Inc., a Peterborough, Ont.-based vendor of an automated specimen sorting system for clinical laboratories.

EHR

Hospitals

Vendor News

Disease Management

New Products from HIT Vendors

Joseph Goedert | Mar 15

Announcements of new products from health information technology vendors started a week before the HIMSS13 conference in New Orleans and continue since the show. Here are some of the newer ones:

Group Practices

Practice Management

Consumer Health

Mobile Technology

Hospitals

Vendor News

House Committee to Consider FDA Regulation of Medical Mobile Apps

Joseph Goedert | Mar 15

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold hearings on March 19, 20 and 21 on possible Food and Drug Administration regulation of medical mobile apps that could be considered medical devices.

Mobile Technology

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Medication Management

Going Beyond the Basics with RTLS

Elizabeth Gardner | Mar 13

Hospitals are using the current generation of real-time location systems to do more than locate things, or even people.

Hospitals

Vendor News

Mobile Technology

UCLA Trying to Predict Rising Brain Pressure

Joseph Goedert | Mar 13

The neurosurgery department at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles is testing software to predict increasing brain pressure in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Hospitals

Group Practices

Disease Management

Vendor News

Systems Integration

What’s the Deal with Watson and Cloud Computing?

David Linthicum | Mar 12

IBM is now offering a cloud-based Watson service to help oncologists develop the best-possible treatments for cancer patients.”

Consumer Health

Hospitals

Group Practices

House Seeks Answers from FDA on Mobile Medical App Regulation

Joseph Goedert | Mar 12

The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently sent questions to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., seeking clarification of the agency’s evolving policy of regulating certain mobile medical apps as medical devices.

Mobile Technology

Hospitals

Group Practices

Policy & Regulation

Debunking the Top 10 I.T. Usability Myths

John McCormick | Mar 12

The usability of health and other information technology systems has long been a challenge and there are a number of common misconceptions as to why the problem persists.

Comments (2)

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Medication Management

Mobile Technology

What the Heck is Big Data?

Elizabeth Gardner | Mar 11

Like "The Cloud" last year or "Mobile Apps" the year before, it's the I.T. catchphrase that's considered so big it's deemed worthy of double capitalization.

Data Repositories

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers