Source: Jennifer Prestigiacomo, Healthcare Informatics Content: “A nursing symposium session at HIMSS12 made me think back about my magazine’s recent website redesign and transition to a new content management system (the ‘other’ CMS). The HIMSS12 session, “Transitioning From a ‘Best of Breed’ to a Single Vendor EHR With CPOE,” brought up some great points about [...]Source: Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider Acute Content: “Doctors have an “ethical duty” to use the communication channels used by their patients to provide them with good medical advice beyond the occasional ten minute consultation.
This was the impassioned rallying call given by inspirational American paediatrician, mum and blogger Dr Wendy Swanson at HIMSS12 last week in [...]Source: David Raths, Healthcare Informatics Content: “The other nine technology trends featured in this issue involve topics that most CIOs are wrestling with in 2012. But the Healthcare Informatics editorial team thought it was important to highlight one trend with a slightly longer timeline: the convergence of emerging genetic medicine and electronic health records. The [...]Source: Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare Content: “Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, predicts that by 2013 more than 50% of care will being conducted using EHRs.
In his keynote speech at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Las Vegas, Nev., last week, Mostashari chronicled the achievements of [...]Source: Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT The Health Record Review Content: “Interconnectivity, interoperability, systems integration.
There may be some technical differences between these terms, but there’s no doubt that, in simple terms, getting IT systems to work together is rapidly moving front-and-center for anyone involved in the healthcare sector.
For example, at the recent HIMSS12 conference in Las [...]Source: Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News Content: “CSC has announced its ‘Pocket Health’ mobile app, developed in collaboration with the NHS. Pocket Health allows UK residents with an iPhone, iTouch or iPad to access a wide range of healthcare information from the NHS Choices website.
Officials say the app is designed to make it easier for [...]Source: Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Content: At the occasion of the International Rare Disease Day the ICMCC Foundation is proud to announce an upcoming call for chapters for its new book in the Springer CMCC Series (Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics).
The book, titled Orphan Diseases in the age of Health 2.0 should, amongst others, show [...]Source: Gienna Shaw, FierceHealthIT Content: “IBM has always intended Watson–the natural language processor best known for beating out its puny human competitors on the game show Jeopardy!–to do more than answer trivia questions. And the complex, high-stakes, data driven healthcare industry is one of the areas where the company sees a potential gold mine.
But there’s [...]Source: Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT Content: “With public health measures receiving a higher profile in Meaningful Use Stage 2, government agencies are struggling to connect healthcare providers online to public health agencies at the state and local levels. To some extent, this connectivity may depend on the nascent health information exchanges (HIEs) evolving across the country, [...]Source: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi Content: “With mobile health consumer market projections for ranging from $7 billion to $43 billion, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, a casual reader might think that a plethora of health citizens are tracking their health, weight, food intake, exercise, and other observations of daily living by smartphones and tablets.
But as the chart [...]Source: Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch Content: “So much money to be spent, so little value for older adults. Skepticism on. If you believe that within 5 years there will be significant spending on wearable home monitoring applications for assisted living, you are what some might call a tech optimist. That industry is [...]Source: Medical News Today Content: “How we move is an excellent indicator of overall health. When we feel good, we move around continually. When we’re in pain, we reduce our physical activity. This observation might seem trivial, but it has led to an original approach for evaluating chronic pain. A team from EPFL’s Laboratory of [...]Source: UPI Content: “Stage 2 of the Electronic Health Record Incentive programs involve new standards for online access for patients to their records, a U.S. health official said.
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, part of the American [...]Source: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi Content: “The record attendance at HIMSS12, in terms of both attendees (numbering some 38,000) and exhibitors, illustrated just how hot health information technology has become in the 20 years since I first began attending this meeting — when it was only a few thousand hospital computer geeks and materials managers [...]
Preparing data and building data mining models are two very well documented steps of analytics projects. However, whatever interesting your results are, they are useless if no action is taken. Thus, the step from analytics to action is a crucial one in any analytics project. Imagine you have the best data and found the best [...]
It’s been very popular among marketing types to talk about “the customer” but seek metrics for affirmation other than those based on or derived from the customer. Web analysts have followed their lead, and provided Marketers plenty of awareness, engagement, and campaign metrics. As I’ve said in the past, this is a huge disconnect. Does [...]Have a question on Customer Valuation, Retention, Loyalty, or Defection? Go ahead and send it to me here. If on the topic above, you can leave a comment on the post:
Marketing to Focus on Customer. Analytics?
I would like to share with you two reports regarding analytics that I read recently. The first one is Intelligence for Everyone: Transforming Business Analytics Across the Enterprise is written by Irfan Khan from SAP. According to the author, big data is a big lie. The fear from the industry regarding big data is not [...]