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Intuit is well known in finance and the commercial world and an interesting article by Austin Merritt on Software Advice “Intuit Health: A Sleeping Giant with Big Potential” highlights the potential this company has in the healthcare space applying the principles so successfully used in their industry leading personal finance solutions (Quicken, Quickbooks, TurboTax etc). […]
and improve the quality of healthcare!HealthImaging featured a report Medical errors cost U.S. $17 billion in 2008 which estimated that This figure amounted to 0.72 percent of the $2.39 trillion spent on healthcare that year in the U.S. The study identified the sources based on medical claims estimating: 564,000 inpatient injuries (1.5 percent of all […]
Robotic surgery is on the increase and for good reason. Its not just the ability to control movement more precisely but with the ability to create small instruments that are able to achieve the same function as larger more invasive instruments. As this interview with Dr Fernando (a colleague and alum from the Royal Free Hospital) highlights […]
As promised my Slide presentation has been uploaded to Slideshare on LinkedIn: “Meaningful Use Day Of Reckoning Health Story”. Click on the link below to view the presentation. http://slidesha.re/ejqTv7 Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Cloud computing is on a target to generate billions in revenue and is experiencing something of a revival. It’s a revival when you consider that historically our access to computers used to be in the cloud…albeit the cloud was some data center and we were wired to that cloud with a hard wired terminal. Just […]
In a fun piece by the Onion titled: Quick-Lube Shop Masters Electronic Record Keeping Six Years Before Medical Industry offers an alternative solution to the current challenges of implementing an EHR. Since car maintenance is well tracked and probably many of us have experienced the sophistication of he follow up by your local lubrication center sending you a reminder […]
In a recent study comparing acupuncture with simulated acupuncture: Simulated acupuncture can treat nausea effectively in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapyhttp://www.news-medical.net/news/20110324/Simulated-acupuncture-can-treat-nausea-effectively-in-cancer-patients-undergoing-radiotherapy.aspx More compelling evidence of the power of the placebo effect and the power of our own thought and mind The study from Karoli ska Institutet and Linköping University in Sweden showed that patients, who received only […]
Ross Martin MD (founder of the American College of Medical Informatimusicology as part of his self-proclamation as the world’s leading singer/songwriter of health information technology standards development organization songs) has written a new song – a Rap this time on Meaningful Use. Driven by a desire to bring the “Pants on the Ground” by General […]
Gorilla Glass (foundation of the iPhone display) – Imagine the possibilities in healthcare Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Fresh from an exciting and busy week at HIMSS in Orlando that was topped off with a personal highlight – witnessing the space shuttle launch from a Passenger Jet and the video: There continues to be tremendous interest and excitement surrounding the potential for IBM’s Jeopardy champion (Watson) to enhance medicine and ignite discussion on […]
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Watson Emerges Champion in Jeopardy Watson emerged the Jeopardy Champion last night with a resounding $ 77,147, beating both competitors (Ken Jennings:$ 24,000 and Brad Rutter:$21,600) by over 300% ($53,147/$55,547). Hats off to Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter for taking on the challenge and doing such a great job This was followed today with the joint Nuance/IBM […]
It was an exciting news day today with the announcement of a Strategic partnership between Nuance and 3M. Lots of coverage and keen interest from the press and healthcare industry as evidenced by the 290,000 search results in Google by 15:30 ET. While many of the news links were picking up 3M’s Press Release and […]
Certification remains one of the basic building blocks of the incentive program from the Government. CMS provides a tool for finding certified EHR technology for practices as part of the EHR incentive program. As Houston Neal Director of Marketing at Software Advice points out “Certified” is the $44,000 buzzword. In this guest posting he drills down into […]
The recent publication of the PCAST Health Information Technology Report: Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward, published December 8, 2010 (press release and covered in this webcast) and became something of a Piñata for comments. Vince Kuratis did a great job of pulling these comments and […]
Headlines this week have provided much confusion in the march towards digitization of healthcare that were based on a Stanford study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine: Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support Systems with a conclusion: Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs and CDS and better quality. These results raise concerns about the ability […]
Great post from Dr Halamka laying out the details of what is required to qualify for meaningful use incentives http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/ec_res/nt/36980CA6-E154-4820-A0ED-8B235138B79F/measures.pdf Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Nuance announced the launch of the Dragon Mobile SDK for iOS and Android via a new self-service website as part of the Nuance Mobile Developer Program. >>>>Now mobile developers are able to quickly and easily leverage the powerful dictation and voice search capabilities at the core of the successful Dragon Dictationand Dragon Search apps, as well as Nuance’s trusted Vocalizer text-to-speech (TTS). In […]
So a recent survey from the CDC: NCHS Health E-Stat “Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record Systems of Office-based Physicians: United States, 2009 and Preliminary 2010 State Estimates” (pdf version here) and reported on the US Department of Health and Human Services website HHS.gov “Surveys show significant proportions of hospitals and doctors already plan to adopt […]
Survey: Docs struggling financially, but new tech makes job easierhttp://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/survey-docs-struggling-financially-new-tech-makes-job-easierTechnology can actually make your life better…certainly according to doctors Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
This needs to be fixed if telemedicine is ever to take off A national license to practice medicinehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/01/national-license-practice-medicine.html Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
New innovation improves results in IVF IVF breakthrough to hit the world markethttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/uoa-ibt010511.php Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Eat more tomatoes…..Tomatoes found to contain nutrient which prevents vascular diseaseshttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/w-tft010611.php Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Nuance’s eScription Platform Honored with Seventh Consecutive Best-in-KLAS Award Seven Consecutive Best in KLAS Awards, Market Growth and Continued Delivery of Innovation Reinforces eScription as Leading Solution for Hosted, Background Speech Recognition BURLINGTON, Mass., – December 20, 2010 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its eScription platform has received a Best in […]
