Posts Tagged ‘healthit’

Phil Baumann (@PhilBaumann) who can also be found at @HealthIsSocial had a great blog post this morning titled “A Note to Readers” in it he posits that “…. it’s the emerging ideologies concerning Healthcare and Social Media that are giving me pause. Why? Because I feel that we’re not taking enough alone-time to step back […]

Microsoft’s Dr Bill Crounse (@MicrosoftMD) has a weekly online show “Health Tech Today” featuring innovative Healthcare solutions enabled by technology. The most recent episode included the video below demonstrating how a hospital can leverage information from their EMR to help to provide information to patients on their expected Emergency Room wait-time. This is currently in […]

This Fast Company article about the hot credit card-processing startup Square (their product is on the left side of the above image) got me thinking about health data, especially this snippet: Rabois says Square was designed to be the “Google Analytics” of small- to medium-size businesses, and unlike traditional POS systems, the app’s simple dashboard […]

A new healthcare startup called Massive Health has been getting a lot of buzz recently. They are still in–as they call it–“ninja mode,” so there aren’t a lot of details about the products and services they will be offering. But it’s clear that the company is going to be focusing on driving behavior change by […]

(via ePatientDave) You know how in science fiction movies the alien/human language barrier is overcome by some tiny electronic universal translator that instantaneously allows each party of a conversation to speak and listen in their native language? Google’s new voice-enabled Google Translate app (currently available for Android, iPhone likely coming soon) brings us one step […]

We at the Perficient Healthcare IT blog are big proponents of social media. As Liza recently outlined, social media offers numerous ways to find information and develop and deepen relationships. Along those same lines, I think social media offers some great tools for cultivating empathy. What do I mean by empathy? Dev Patnaik literally wrote […]

Today’s big news is that the iPhone will soon be available on the Verizon network, and Verizon was quick to reassure potential customers that its 3G network is ready for the onslaught of new iPhone users. The chart pictured above shows the impact of the iPhone 3G on the AT&T network (source), an impact that […]

Microsoft Surface wowed at CES and there’s been considerable buzz about the technology, new form factors and reduced price ever since. I initially had the opportunity to see Surface in action at the Microsoft World Partner Conference in 2009 and had the opportunity to learn about some Surface Healthcare applications when the Texas Health Resources […]

Lately I’ve had numerous discussions with people about Social Media, why I use it, how I use it and which tools I use. So I figured it may make sense to write about it! I use Social Media because it’s an incredible tool to seek & find information and thought leaders. In addition Social Media […]

The above video clip, from the medical drama “Strong Medicine,” is loaded with medical abbreviations. BP, CBC, PT, PTT, EKG, and my favorite one: “stat.” Fun fact: the word “stat” is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which means “immediately.” Medical abbreviations and acronyms are deeply integrated into the workflows of healthcare practitioners, so […]

I’m a big fan of Twitter. I use it to find & share information & to connect with people that share my interests. As such I’m an active participant in several Twitter communities including the Healthcare, Health IT, Health Social Media, SharePoint & Microsoft Partner Communities. Yesterday Dux Raymond Sy (@MeetDux) posted a link to […]

As many of you know Perficient was honored to be selected as Microsoft’s Health Provider Partner of the year for 2010. Recently I was thrilled to be included among Microsoft Partners invited to share their thoughts on Microsoft technologies in Healthcare. HealthVault, Cloud, partnering with Microsoft and the consumer to enterprise nature of Microsoft products […]