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Technology in the Medical World

June 9, 2015 By Deepika Patel 1 Comment

Everyday, the use of technology grows, and the lines between what computers do versus humans grow closer. In some cases, the lines have become blurry. From robot vacuums and other items to automate household cleaning to driverless cars on the roads and robot-assisted surgeries in ...

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Filed Under: Health care, healthcare innovation, Healthcare IT Tagged With: turkers

Healthcare Consumerism: Who’s Really Making the Decisions?

April 28, 2015 By Deepika Patel Leave a Comment

For thousands of years, patients have visited doctors for issues such as headaches, heartaches, and all kinds of "aches." The symptoms and signs are reviewed, diagnosed, and a treatment is then recommended. In the past, the patient-doctor relationship involved the physician ...

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Filed Under: e-patient, EHR, Health care

Integrating the Healthcare Workplace: Diverse Roles Must Unite for Patient Care

March 10, 2015 By Deepika Patel Leave a Comment

In the workplace, people are grouped together or join a team so they can impact an individual or a group of people. In healthcare, it should be evident that we, regardless of the discipline, work together to help the patient get better. Whether you work on the front lines, behind ...

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Filed Under: Health care, healthcare innovation, Healthcare IT Tagged With: health care, health care workplace

Pills: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

November 6, 2014 By Deepika Patel 2 Comments

One day, we are going to work. Mid-day, we start to feel sick. We go to the doctor’s office. We are evaluated and given a pill to get better. Sounds like a normal story, right? Typically, we take medication and we get better. However, what happens when we don’t comply with ...

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Filed Under: Health care Tagged With: pharma

Privacy and Google Glass: Where’s the Line?

July 10, 2014 By Deepika Patel Leave a Comment

Privacy and Google Glass: Where’s the Line?

Google. Is there ever a moment when we don’t use a Google service? Whether we are searching for a new recipe to locating directions when lost to sharing documents and pictures with friends and family, Google is there for us. So what can Google do for us when it comes to health ...

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Filed Under: mHealth, PHR Tagged With: Google Glass, HIPAA, Patient Privacy, patient rights

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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