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Using health-records technology to bring value
The shelves that used to hold Children's Hospital Boston's paper medical records now stand empty. What does paperlessness mean? It’s about helping patients, says Daniel Nigrin, Chief Information...
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Shadowing ADHD with web-based tools
This is how it used to be when I saw a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: “You know, Dr. Chan, I really don’t think the medicine’s working,” the parent would tell me. “I just don’t...
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Disease management meets intelligent design
At a conference in Texas a couple of years ago, I found myself – as at all good national conferences — talking to a colleague from my own institution. As we browsed the poster session, we talked about...
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Advanced computing meets healthcare: Disruptive changes to come
(alikins/Flickr) The recent Bio-IT World meeting featured some exciting forecasts about disruptive healthcare advances from advanced computing technology. We’re closer than ever to process...
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Innovation on inpatient floors: 21st century white boards
Our old white board (patient names erased for privacy) Imagine walking into your first day of work, being introduced to a new colleague and hearing, “Here’s the person who’s going to help you solve...
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Application building for dummies: Filling unmet medical needs
Photo: fdecomite/Flickr What do you invest in if you’re a venture capitalist looking for the next big thing? I’d invest in a company that makes it easy to create your own healthcare mobile apps....
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Turning medicine inside out: It’s all about the data
(Mike Deal aka ZoneDancer/Flickr) From the ashes of the demise of Google Health may yet rise a health care information system that really works — for doctors and patients alike. And let’s not forget...
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Let’s liberate clinical trial data
The Gutenberg press disseminated ideas to a wider society. But in the clinical world, much information is still on "lockdown." (Wikimedia Commons) The best things in life are free: friends, sunny...
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Learned helplessness: Millennials and electronic medical records
Is healthcare IT ready to grow up? (N Kasp/Wikimedia commons) As I read more about the Millennials, the generation to which I myself belong, I’m starting to see a connection between their attitude...
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Enhancing patient / care team interaction with an iPad “passport”
In just a 24-hour period, patients in the hospital typically see a variety of doctors, nurses, x-ray technicians and other medical professionals, and undergo a plethora of diagnostic tests—without an...
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