3D printing offers the opportunity to print pharmaceuticals specifically produced to meet the needs of individual patients.
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Tag: Healthcare information technology
Sensory Overload?
The key to achieving that harmony of technology is through sensors, devises that collect vast amounts of data from an almost infinite number of sources.
Continue readingBig Data Drives Big Change
The digital age is the age of big data where every piece of technology captures data available for later use. This digital “exhaust data,” is data created as a by-product of other activities.
Continue readingSay No to Paper
Going forward I will never allow anyone I know to be treated in a facility that bases its medical care on dangerous paper-based processes.
Continue readingWatson, Come Here I Need You
Watson’s success on Jeopardy! demonstrates the capabilities of computers to store and retrieve medical knowledge at the point of care, thereby freeing clinician minds from the unnecessary burden of recalling facts.
Continue readingSeeing Is Not Believing
As organizations work at deploying health information technology and deliver clinical transformation through redesigned workflows, they need to recognize the basis for many of the errors we, as human beings, make in our everyday lives.
Continue readingShow Me the Money
The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail.
Continue readingA True Tipping Point?
From the signing of healthcare reform legislation to the release of final rules for “meaningful use,” events in 2010 are driving toward a true transformation in the delivery of healthcare in the United States.
Continue readingIs “Meaningful Use” Meaningful?
Transformation of healthcare requires a complete disruption of our current system of healthcare delivery.
Continue readingRegulate HIT Tools as Medical Devices? Yes and No
Regulation of HIT tools as medical devices is currently premature. The regulations must be constructed to advance HIT use while simultaneously protecting patients.
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