Since there may have been a little less clarity than we had hoped in the way we phrased our telehealth story last week, we offer some additional detail about Philips Healthcare’s Cardiology Care Cycles products. We will also take the opportunity to clarify our warning about our industry’s slow adoption of home telehealth systems elsewhere […]
At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Atlanta this month, Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco HealthPresenceâ„¢ 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 […]
During the recent HIMSS meeting, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benamin delivered an address that outlined her vision for using Electronic Health Records to improve the nation’s health. We received permission to reprint it verbatim.