Mobility is a must-have attribute of any solution designed for use by clinicians.  These information workers on the go must be able to access clinical information about the patients under their care anytime and anywhere.  An EMR or HIS system...

You may have seen (or at least heard about) the recent article published by researchers at Stanford University. The article, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, concludes that current usage of electronic heath records and clinical decision support...

If you follow industry business, you know that smartphones are taking health and healthcare by a storm.  Whether it is doctors and nurses using smartphones to access clinical information at the bedside or consumers downloading the coolest new app...

This morning I find myself in Minneapolis.  Although the flight from Seattle is little more than 3 hours long, the climate is worlds apart.  Weather forecasters are predicting the coldest day and night of the year with daytime temperatures hovering...

It is well known that consumers turn to the Internet when searching for health information.  It is also understood that the accuracy, quality and reliability of medical information found on the web is uneven at best.   So imagine the concerns...

Its hard to browse through a health industry trade journal and not come to the conclusion that hospitals and clinics are fixated on electronic medical record systems and health information exchange initiatives.  Certainly, the specter of ARRA HITECH...

Childhood obesity is a growing threat to kids’ health and poses a significant risk for chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and stroke later in life.  The alarming rise in the incidence of childhood obesity is blamed on overconsumption...

Last evening during his keynote at CES in Las Vegas , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off some of our newest innovations.  One of those was the next iteration of Surface Computing . From the very first time I saw early prototypes of Surface in...

Buying an EMR for your medical practice isn’t a decision to be taken lightly.  Some docs get hung up on the price of the software, opting for the lowest-priced solution on the market.  That can be a costly mistake since the price of acquiring...