healthcare

Kaiser Permanente CIO Philip Fasano discusses how the electronic records 'bet' has paid off and how social and mobile technologies will advance the effort. He also offers advice on making big tech projects successful, how to encourage innovation, what it means for CIOs to be the 'CEO' of their organizations and why healthcare provider should be in the business of delighting customers and patients.

How Yale New Haven Health's CIO tackled integrating three IT systems into one while keeping customer care front and center.

Indranil 'Neal' Ganguly, vice president and CIO at CentraState Healthcare System, is helping to communicate the benefits that technology can bring to healthcare and shape public policy on the issue.

IBM today said it was rolling out software that will help doctors and insurance companies reduce costs by better analyzing and managing huge amount of patient data.

University of Utah researchers have found even more ways to use all those pings coming from a Wi-Fi hotspot. On top of being able to see through walls, they’ve found a way to use a wireless network to monitor a person’s heart rate.

The $19 billion aimed at digitizing health records masked a potentially more important fund -- money to train 50,000 to 100,000 new IT people for healthcare.

In the last two week I had the pleasure to participate to the IBM Analyst Insights 2010 in Madrid and Microsoft Health User group European Summit in Brussels. These two different events -- the first dedicated to explaining to the IT analyst community the future company strategy across the various sectors and business areas including, of course, healthcare, and the second aimed more at comparing the opinions of various EMEA healthcare stakeholders on the development of healthcare ICT -- made me think about the evolution and exploitation of cloud computing in healthcare in the last 12-18 months.

It's been 19 years since the prestigious Institute of Medicine urged greater adoption of computer systems in healthcare, and more than six years since then-President George W. Bush declared, "By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs and improve care."

While the government has passed laws to better protect private health information, most data healthcare providers say that information isn't any safer than it was before, according to a survey by the Ponemon Institute.

What's the new healthcare bill mean to developers generally resident in the US, not-unionized, often with multiple revenue streams, but subject to project cancellation without notice? The subject's far too big for anyone to be conclusive already, but there's starting to be plenty of information to be had. To start, experts advise to be alert, but calm.