Category: eHealth

As the healthcare IT regulatory landscape continues to expand, so too, do employment opportunities within the industry, according to Bonnie Siegel, a healthcare IT recruiter with Witt/Kieffer. read more Source: Health IT regulatory expansion creates new job opportunities

A patient room of the future with 3-D printing, handwashing sensors and “life detectors” aren’t tools out of some futuristic movie–they’re all part of Intermountain Healthcare’s new Healthcare Transformation Lab, which launched this week, the 22-hospital health system announced. read more Source: Intermountain innovation lab to focus on making care more patient-centric

It sounds so simple to have people take their drugs on time and in the dosages prescribed by their doctors. However, medication non-adherence is a serious problem in this country that is unhealthy,… read more Source: Struggling with medication adherence: A bitter pill to swallow

With the help of a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, three researchers from the University of Southern California are setting out on a joint research project to develop a wireless, multisensory system for the early detection of shunt malfunctions in people with excessive brain fluid, according to an announcement from the university.…

While some hospitals have turned to technology to help monitor employee habits like hand washing, using such tools to spy on employee phone calls is far from a recommended practice. That, however, didn’t stop an Idaho-based hospital CEO from using IT department personnel to monitor the communications of a now former staff doctor. read more…

A new tool developed by the American College of Surgeons enables physicians and the public to more accurately assess the risk involved with 1,500 surgical procedures. A study describing how the Surgical Risk Calculator was developed is available online at the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. read more Source: Online calculator assesses individual…

Health information exchanges offer the potential to offer doctors in the emergency department a more accurate list of medications that a patient is taking than the drug list recorded by the triage… read more Source: HIEs maintain a more accurate medication list than ED records

A Swiss study of text messaging intervention in young people did not have statistically significant short-term effects on smoking cessation, but did result in statistically significant lower… read more Source: Text-based youth smoking cessation study has mixed results