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INITIATIVE: ADOPTION & SUSTAINABILITY
To all the folks who put *too much emphasis* on the techology instead of the practicality of a solution – take heed of the iPhone before we all start talking about the future of Healthcare Information Technology!
I was seated across a CIO for a major hospital network after work picking his brains on his hospital’s on-going EMR ramp-up. In the heart of the world’s largest medical center in Houston, this fellow New Yorker and I were sharing stories of the old neighborhood. While talking about the Sopranos and the challenge of finding a good pizza in town, he was talking about the extensive travelling he has been doing lately, getting his over 100+ hospitals connected to their new EMR system.
BIRD FLU
A REAL THREAT | Why do we still view this threat as an abstract dooms-day scenario? Could it be because some projections forecast anywhere from 30% of a general population perishing from this potential pandemic? I recently attended a Pandemic Disease Tabletop Exercise (a RealTime emergency management day-long drill) and even amongst some of the most dedicated health and governmental professionals involved in Bird Flu, the challenge of truly appreciating the gravity of this disease was extremely evident. Maybe because many have not been to regions that have been affected by epidemics such as SARS and have experienced these things first-hand.
I myself have been exposed to governmentally mandated screenings right off the airport gate in Hong Kong en route to London during the peak of the SARS outbreak on my way back to New York a few years ago. To those who continue to cling on to a false sense of security – beware. Avian Flu is extremely real to the people that have already died from this evolving killer. Read the rest of this entry »
MOBILE HEALTH & HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS
We mark the 2-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week.
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. The Category 3 storm made landfall on the morning of August 29th in southeast Louisiana and at the Louisiana/Mississippi state line, respectively.
BREAST CANCER
HEALTH360° is announcing the development of a Free Health Information Network Pilot Program for select medical institutions and patient-advocacy groups for women battling breast cancer in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The premise of the pilot program is to encourage and support women currently receiving or recently completing treatment for all stages of breast cancer. HEALTH360° will be able to assist women and their families in better managing their treatments and all other activities related to improving their health by providing them a full-service Concierge. HEALTH360° can be used to maintain medical records, pharmaceutical and dietary information, and even casual bits of information such as exercise regiments and personal schedules.
THE STATE OF HEALTHCARE
TODAY’S CHALLENGE | With the US Federal Government’s 2014 deadline of Electronic Medical Records adoption and a recent announcement at the Annual AHIMA Conference – Hospital CIOs are seeking a viable platform within the next 2 years, HEALTH360° is properly poised to leverage its current momentum as the necessary infrastructure requirements within the hospital prospect is already mostly in place.
By enabling physicians and nurses to utilize this EMR network through any process they feel most comfortable with: (1) through a communication device or (2) sending data whether handwritten on commonly-used paper or by phone – the ease of use and affordability of HEALTH360° will enable mass adoption.
