Eric Wicklund
Voalté's Trey Lauderdale and Darren Dworkin of Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Health System tell a packed room at the 2013 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition how to launch a smartphone-based communications system in a hospital.
In a Tuesday morning keynote at the 2013 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, Eric Topol illustrates the digital healthcare consumer of the future and explains how it'll mean the end of today's innefficient and unsafe population-based healthcare system.
The Monday morning education session brought attendees up to date on the many organizations that have a stake in mHealth regulation.
The company selects 15 finalists in the first phase of a contest to promote innovate mobile applications that can integrate directly with Allscripts electronic health record software.
Announced Monday morning at HIMSS13, the partnership brings together one of the largest sources of consumer-oriented health information and the developer of the landmark 2net platform, which links more than 200 medical devices and solutions.
Once considered a fad or passing fancy, mobile healthcare is now part and parcel of the 2013 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition agenda. Here's just a sample of what awaits the HIMSS conference attendee.
The survey indicates doctors are expecting that voice-enabled virtual assistants will help them improve communications with patients, better manage their workflows and improve the accuracy of information in the electronic health record.
The My Health Alerts app is designed to give providers a platform to push directed messages to patients through e-mails, text alerts, phone calls, smartphone push notifications or web app channels.
The New York-based company has finalized certification standards for medical, health and wellness apps and created a panel of experts to certify them. Officials expect to launch the certification program this spring.
The solution, expected to be unveiled this fall, would enable clinicians to enter prescriptions and other information simply by speaking into an iOS-enabled mobile device, like an iPhone or iPad.