My neighbor, a physician, installed an EMR this year to qualify for Meaningful Use. He has given up the clipboard in favor of a laptop to expedite data entry into this EMR. He has also give up looking his patient’s in the eye while doing rounds. Instead, he’s heads down, keying data into the laptop […]
Posts Tagged ‘mobile health’
Intelligence Goes Mobile
I want to discuss how easy it has become to take desktop applications to the floor of HIMSS 2012. Health BI is a comprehensive healthcare analytics solution with over 600 key performance indicators, ONC certification for Meaningful Use and a real-time intelligence engine that reevaluates patient compliance each time the data is refreshed. This was […]
Cast Your Vote: Today’s Greatest Health IT Challenge
Health IT leaders are in the midst of handling a myriad of business challenges. Each year at HIMSS, we interview today’s biggest Health IT influencers on the hottest topics of our time. This is your chance to join those experts and tell us what YOU think are the Greatest Health IT Challenges. This quick two […]
Like Healthcare Gamification? Wait until you hear about Embedded Health.
Late last night I was fortunate enough to come across an article entitled “Embedded Health: Designing Future Health Interventions Around Our Weaknesses“. This article begins: Once we understand the points at which the human brain makes bad decisions that affect our health, we can begin to find ways to influence us to not make those […]
Looking Forward: Mobile Technology, Privacy and Security
Mobile Health, or “mHealth”, offers benefits throughout the healthcare industry. For clinicians, mHealth is a method to remotely monitor a patient’s health and improve the quality care rendered. For patients, mHealth provides a way to monitor their own health more easily and reduces the cost of care by decreasing the amount of time spend at […]
Is Tonic Health gamification the cure for what ails me?
Back in August I wrote a piece entitled, “What is the Greatest Mobile Health Challenge?” In this post I asked what the greatest challenge that gamification could solve. My answer: Providing interoperable records that take the burden of collecting and distributing health data away from the patient. Those managing chronic disease are often meeting with […]
Ask the Expert: How to Connect with Patients and Members using Social & Mobile Tools
Michael Porter is a Principal at Perficient for Portal, Social, and Collaboration solutions. He leverages 13 years of experience with portal and content management projects to help clients understand and take advantage of the value provided by web technologies. He has supported many multi-million dollar portal implementations for some of the world’s largest companies. Michael […]
Ask the Expert: How to Create a Successful Mobile Health Gamification Experience
Scott Schnaars is a technology and internet sales, business development and operations professional with a passion for technology, writing & golf. Throughout his career, Scott has held various positions within companies such as Borland, WebEx, Motorola & Yahoo! Currently, Scott is head of sales at Badgeville, the leading behavior management firm, which is a partner […]
Ask the Expert: How to Create the Most Collaborative Healthcare Site in the Nation
Robert Sumner is a Technical Director and leads the Web Content Management (WCM) practice within the National ECM Business Unit at Perficient. As a director, he manages all WCM projects and provides internal strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development for the Practice. He is an expert in the web content management space […]
Connecting the Billions of Little Pieces in Mobile Health
Having interoperable, and mobile, health data sounds like a great plan. However, there are a few problems that stand in our way. First, one must consider the pure volume of connected devices. It is estimated that the number of mobile devices will reach a total of 50 billion by 2020. Then one must consider that […]
New Perficient White Paper! Breaking Down the Barriers to Healthcare with Telehealth Technology
In Cincinnati, a man boards a MegaBus bound for Chicago twice per month. Unlike the business travelers sitting next to him, he’s not lured by the promise of free Wi-Fi and power outlets. Rather, this Cincinnati native sits on a bus 12 hours round trip so that he can have access to a particular physician […]
Providing Health Information to Busy Patients
“People are not built to pay attention.” – Dr. Clifford Nass, Connected Health Symposium 2011 This priceless piece of wisdom was provided during last month’s Connected Health Symposium in Boston. What Dr. Nass successfully communicating to symposium attendees is that while we envision a world where patients are consuming healthcare information in isolation of all […]