Healthcare IT Solutions

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• Thanks @RiverLogicInc for adding us to your #Healthcare list http://twitter.com/RiverLogicInc/healthcare – much appreciated! #
• Thanks @HospitalPortal for adding us to your #HealthIT list http://twitter.com/HospitalPortal/healthcare-it much appreciated! #
• From @Ahier w/ @ReginaHolliday Defining Moment for #MeaningfulUse http://bit.ly/anmfsg #MU #HCReform #HealthReform #Healthcare #

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Yesterday Microsoft announced it’s acquisition of Sentillion. Sentillion provides identity and access management technology to over 1000 hospitals including single sign-on solutions. This acquisition nicely complements Microsoft’s existing healthcare specific applications HealthVault (Personal Health Record application platform) and the Amalga suite of products (allowing data access and aggregatation of disparate systems). As such Microsoft continues its investment in its Health Solutions Group and the healthcare space as a whole.  Will continued investment by traditional IT vendors such as Microsoft, IBM and Oracle in their Health Solutions offerings drive down Health IT costs? As healthcare providers start to understand the value, ease of use, potential lower total cost of ownership and increased number of resources available to implement and support solutions offered by these traditional IT vendors over healthcare specific vendors will we start to see increased adoption? What do you think?

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Dr Ferdinand Velasco (@ftvelasco) Chief Medical Information Officer, Mike Skupian (@mikeskupien) Application Architect and Rease Alvarenga-Smith (@PearlMustafa) of Texas Health Resources about some of the work they are doing with Microsoft’s Surface Technology. Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based, non-profit health care delivery systems in the United States and the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served. The system’s primary service area consists of 16 counties in north central Texas, home to more than 6.2 million people. Texas Health Resources has a number of interesting patient centered initiatives in process some of which you can read about below and some that I will discuss in a future post.  In this post you can read and see how Texas Health Resources is using Microsoft’s innovative Surface technology to enhance patient education and understanding of their condition.  In addition you can read about planned Surface use for neurological therapy and diagnosis.

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Perficient maintains a Healthcare Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/perficient_hc. Below, please find a weekly digest of the discussion in that forum. You may follow the account directly by ‘following’ us on Twitter here.

• RT @robertloakes New from @Anthony_Guerra: Part I, 1-on-1 With Texas Health #CIO Ed Marx and #CMIO Ferdinand Velasco http://bit.ly/3Bba0R #
• RT @jimmyweeks Market for CMIOs surges http://bit.ly/4aA7If – CMIOs are “imperative” in terms of physician adoption #CMIO #
• RT @cmiomagazine CMIO.net Survey: Hospital spending shows signs of stabilizing http://tinyurl.com/ylmqvjx #healthIT #hcHIT #

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