Since before I did health care wireless data at AT&T Wireless in the naughties, there were rumors that Verizon would eventually abandon CDMA for a wireless telephony standard that was compatible with their joint venture partner Vodaphone's GSM-based network in Europe. Well it's finally happening.
Currently AT&T and T-Mobile (along with Europe) are running a GSM-based […]
I was cleaning out the inbox this afternoon. An email promoting the upcoming AAHSA conference sported a big bile-colored text box with the following:
Calling All
BloggersHelp create the future of aging services by sharing your
Annual Meeting experience through your blog. Write about your thoughts,
perspectives and share what you learned at AAHSA's annual meeting.
Bring your own […]
CMS has announced plans to launch a database to compare the quality and price of health care services for Medicare beneficiaries (Health Data Management story).
The
Performance Measurement and Reporting System will be designed to offer
physician-level performance results via a Web site and other methods of
data dissemination. CMS will analyze deidentified Medicare claims to
determine performance, as well […]
Modern Healthcare reports that the Joint Commission is piloting the Wiki concept for collaboration on health care topics.
The commission's motivation was to create a space where healthcare
providers, administrators, researchers and other professionals could
develop a collaborative environment and share ideas, said Jerod Loeb,
executive vice president of quality measurements and research for the
Joint Commission department of health […]
The father of HU (or at least the man who coined the term), Mike Barrett, spoke on the paradox of patient self-management. His presentation was titled, “Don't Ask: Information Aversion and Patient Self-Management.” Behavior economics are making real contributions to HU, both heuristics and biases and what they mean for patient self-management tools. There are […]
Titled, Most Hospitals Reject RFID, a CHIME press release announces that, “A recent CHIME survey shows that the vast majority of respondents have
no current plans to implement RFID technology within their organization.” The survey, done last May, gathered responses from 119 CIOs and found:
76% of responding CHIME members reported that their organizations are
not considering using […]
I arrived in San Francisco last night (July 15) for the Healthcare Unbound conference. The event's at the airport Marriott, which was a nice short shuttle bus ride away. We were dropped off at what appeared to be the rear entrance and were directed to an office in a trailer. Inside was the front desk […]
Okay, I think this blog is back. Since loosing my hard drive and restoring my system I had one last thing to do - get my content management software authenticated by the vendor. That took a while, and I got the code to enter into my system this morning.
Apparently all the posts that I've created […]
With little fanfare, GE Healthcare has launched a suite of blogs as part of a new campaign called PeerVision. Initially targeting the diagnostic imaging market, PeerVision could easily be expanded to include other health care market segments. Included in the site are a few blogs, a discussion forum, and the usual marketing materials.
Most medical […]
Government Health IT ran a story on the growing impact of blogs on the health care industry. “Estimates differ on the number of people using
such tools to find health information. But if blogs are any indicator,
the health care industry — often accused of lagging behind the rest of
the business world — may now be in […]
