Category: eHealth

To healthcare mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, the dirtiest four-letter word in the realm of digital health is “silo.” read more …read more    

The use of geographic information systems technology holds the potential to help hospitals and other healthcare providers make more accurate care transportation decisions–and thus improve care quality and save money–according to new research out of the University of Cincinnati. read more …read more    

Digital health funding in the first quarter of 2014 broke yet another record, with nearly $700 million pouring into the space, according to San Francisco-based digital health startup seed fund Rock Health. read more …read more    

As the use of electronic clinical data in care delivery increases, so, too, will carefully considered collaborations by academic institutions and health industry players, according to a recently published viewpoint in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And despite skeptics’ concerns about compromised results due to potentially distorted data, ensuring industry involvement in such…

The New York eHealth Collaborative and the Partnership Fund for New York City have launched the call for applications for the second class of the New York Digital Health Accelerator, a program that is aiming to make New York a hub for the emerging digital health technology industry. The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and…

Pamela Dixon and Steve Nilsen, of recruiting firm SSi-Search, recently offered up tips for how hospital CIOs can lead effectively and dynamically. read more …read more    

An automated method of identifying potentially preventable readmissions failed to prove accurate enough for it to replace manual review in a recent Kaiser Permanente study. read more …read more