Blog Profile / HealthBlog
| URL : | http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/default.aspx | |
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| Filed Under: | Medical / Healthcare IT | |
| Posts on Regator: | 242 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.5 | |
| Archived Since: | April 6, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Games for Health – Big News from Boston
I arrived in Boston last evening just in time to grab a glass of wine at the opening reception at the 2012 Games for Health Conference. Organizers tell me this is their biggest year ever with more than 425 registered attendees. This morning...(read more)
NHS UK Launches “Health Choices” Application for Windows Phone
There’s “an app for that” for just about everything these days. Indeed, applications for Smartphones are multiplying so fast there will soon be more apps than people on earth, or at least it seems that way. In healthcare there are apps for...(read more)
Collaborative Workflows, Coordinated Care: Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Healthcare
If you did a keyword search on HealthBlog for words like collaboration or communication you would find that these are frequent topics in my writings about clinical workflow, information technology, health and healthcare. I strongly believe...(read more)
Data Entry Far Easier for Clinicians Using Windows Tablets
HealthBlog readers are familiar with my contention that data entry remains one of the primary barriers to more widespread adoption of electronic medical record solutions in our hospitals and clinics. Healthcare is a massively data-intensive industry...(read more)
Directions on Health IT and Clinical Computing
No matter your role in healthcare – doctor, nurse, clinic administrator or hospital executive – your head is probably spinning over the pace of change in the industry. If it isn’t you just aren’t paying attention. The practice of medicine...(read more)
Cloud computing in healthcare – turn here for answers
Businesses large and small are hurdling faster and faster to cloud computing. The reasons are clear. Cloud computing offers the scalability, flexibility and cost advantages needed to help businesses stay competitive during these challenging...(read more)
Cost versus worth of technology in healthcare
Two articles caught my attention this week amid of the flurry of news about jobs, the market and the economy. The first, Not retiring at 65: Physician goes from anti-EHR to pro-ACO, was about a 65 year old physician in Tucson who is not only delaying...(read more)
A Whirlwind of Activity at WoHIT eHealth Week in Copenhagen, Denmark
The view from my room high atop the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel pretty much symbolizes what my past two days have been like at the World of Health IT Conference in Copenhagen – whirlwind. Well, actually the view is of a gigantic wind turbine that supplies...(read more)
Creative Destruction – What it means for healthcare, clinical practice and consumers
Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of providing a keynote address at the Group Practice Improvement Network (GPIN) conference that was held in Seattle. I say “pleasure” for two reasons. Unlike most of the conferences I speak at these days...(read more)
Research4Life “Library in a Box” to be honored at GBCHealth Awards in NYC
A public-private partnership known as Research4Life that is sponsored in part by Microsoft, has been commended by the Global Business Coalition on Health and will be honored during that organization’s annual GBCHealth conference and awards dinner in New...(read more)
Health Tech Spending and Profitability - Chicken, Egg or Omelet?
As someone whose entire career has been steeped in clinical medicine and technology, I’m a big fan of the American publication, Hospital’s and Health Networks. I especially like reading the commentaries on the publication’s digital feed, H&HN...(read more)
Is your IT strategy putting your health organization at risk of becoming extinct?
This week I’m writing from Gothenburg, Sweden, where I am holding meetings with Microsoft customers and partners. I am also doing a keynote address at Vitalis, a conference billed as the largest health IT event in Scandinavia. This isn’t...(read more)
Microsoft HealthVault opens to the world……. or at least a lot more of it
Whenever I travel outside the US, and even inside the US, I tend to get lots of questions about Microsoft’s platform for personal health records, HealthVault. I say “platform” because HealthVault is much more than a site for storing your personal...(read more)
Health ICT 2012 – Pain, Progress and Promise
After two weeks back in my Redmond office it is time again to hit the road. I swear I hardly remember last week due to the mental fog of jetlag after a two and a half week sojourn in New Zealand and Australia. Next week I’m heading in the...(read more)
Senior citizens improve health, sense of well being with Kinect, XBOX 360 & Microsoft HealthVault
If you think video games are just for kids, tweens and teens you’d be terribly wrong. People of all ages are buying and playing video games these days. In fact, a pilot program called the Exergamers Wellness Club developed by Microsoft, the...(read more)
Health ICT moves forward in Australia with some great people and best practices
This weekend I’ve settled in Brisbane at one of my favorite hotels, the Stamford Plaza. It has an ideal location with easy access to the riverfront, City Cat water taxi service, the botanical garden, restaurants, and local area attractions. ...(read more)
New Zealand sets an example on the race for better healthcare
Over the weekend I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, my first stop before I continue on to Australia for a multi-city tour of meetings with customers, partners and government officials in the region. I will also deliver a few keynote addresses at...(read more)
Making health services more accessible and affordable to more people
The Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act is slated to bring health insurance coverage to an additional 30 million Americans who are currently uninsured. With many primary care medical practices closed to taking new patients and a national...(read more)
Don’t blame technology for driving up the cost of healthcare. Blame all of us who use it inappropriately.
If you are a regular reader of HealthBlog, I suspect you may already subscribe to THCB, The Health Care Blog. Like most folks in the health industry, I’m a big fan of THCB. It is a “must read” for news and opinion about what’s going on in...(read more)
Your turn! Health information and medical services that scale and change the world.
Those who know about my background understand why and how my medical career gravitated toward all things digital. Frankly, it wasn’t by design. Life just kind of happened more than it was planned. My career started at the tender age of 17...(read more)