Electronic Health Records

Verizon’s healthcare identity service now supports smartphones and electronic health records

Sep 06, 2011 by
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Verizon’s Universal Indentify Service (UIS) for healthcare recently recieved an upgrade, allowing for secure access to EHRs and health information exchanges on smartphones running Apple OS, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry.

Verizon announces free access offer to medical data exchange network – open to all 2.3 million American medical providers

Nov 22, 2010 by
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Verizon Business recently made a big splash with plans to offer free access and usage of their Medical Data Exchange system to over two million US healthcare providers. Sounds like a pretty generous offer, right? On first pass, I’d certainly have to agree though I have a sneaking suspicion it may not turn out to be quite as altruistic as many of the headlines I saw make it sound. As one report described, The credentials will allow doctors and clinicians [Read more]

Voice controlled electronic health records – Nuance could make it happen

May 07, 2010 by
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As part of our coverage of HIMSS 2010, we had the opportunity to check out a series of apps being introduced by Nuance Communications. Physicians who are familiar with Nuance generally know them as a company that provides dictation services. What many physicians may not know is that Nuance has some of the most advanced speech recognition technology on the market and ambitions that go well beyond transcribing dictation summaries and clinic visits. In Atlanta, they announced Medical Mobile Search [Read more]

California Hospital ordering iPads for healthcare use

Apr 21, 2010 by
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One of the most important apps for healthcare providers might not be a medical app after all, rather a business app, called Citrix Receiver for iPad.  This app allows your to have secure access to virtual desktops, applications, and data – those of you who have accessed your hospitals electronic health record when off campus are using this type of software. Hospital systems can use the Citrix app to access their own servers and desktops, as shown in the above video, [Read more]

New iPad Demographics Suggest the Medical iPad Could Be An Easier Sell to Healthcare Providers

Apr 17, 2010 by
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The iPad is a pretty cool device, as you may have gathered from our healthcare perspective comprehensive review of it. And with the iPhone OS 4.0 bringing some new features to this powerful platform, the iPad certainly has a lot of things going for it. In particular, the enterprise and security features of the new operating system will further lower the barriers to adoption of the iPad in healthcare. We could finally have a user-friendly and practical mobile device on [Read more]

Wouldn’t It Be Great if EHRs (medical records) Supported Plug-Ins and Were More Like Firefox?

Apr 06, 2010 by
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I am currently migrating from one electronic health record (EHR) to another in my practice and feeling very sorry for myself. There ought to be a way to do this easily, I keep thinking to myself.  Despite all the talk of interoperability and health information exchanges (HIEs) that is all the buzz right now in health IT circles, it seems that some basic functionality that could help make doctors’ lives easier is still missing from EHRs. While being able to [Read more]

Adobe is Bringing Flash to the iPad – What This Means for Electronic Health Records

Mar 15, 2010 by
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Apple chose Oscars night to announce to the world the coming of their newest device, the iPad. Meanwhile, the folks interested in tech and health IT have been feverishly debating its significance in the medical sphere since its unveiling to the press in January. While its roots in the iPhone OS immediately gives it a huge library of ready applications and a highly-polished user experience, a few themes of disappointment have persisted. The one complaint that is most commonly repeated [Read more]