Health IT
December 12, 2011
GE, Microsoft launch new health IT company
General Electric and Microsoft will jointly establish a new, as-yet-unnamed healthcare IT company, combining their strengths to spur development of an open, interoperable technology platform and create clinical apps aimed at improving patient care worldwide… “Improving the quality of healthcare through innovative collaboration is a goal that we share with GE Healthcare and Microsoft,” said […]
Tags: C. Michel Harper, MD
December 12, 2011
Apple Capitalizes On Doctors’ iPad Romance
It’s well known that doctors love iPads. What’s less well known is that Apple has a strategy to capitalize on that romance with its technology… Johns Hopkins “has armed surgeons with iPad devices to use the Siemens application for imaging.” Mayo Clinic has 10,000 iPhones and 2,000 iPads, Apple said… InformationWeek, by Ken Terry, 12/12/11
Tags: iPad
December 2, 2011
Image sharing could cut unnecessary tests: RSNA
A new medical image-sharing network is being touted as tool that can help reduce unnecessary exams and cut patient radiation exposure…So far, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, a 1,039-bed hospital in New York; the UCSF Medical Center, a 660-bed hospital in San Francisco; and the University of Maryland Medical Center, a 702-bed hospital in Baltimore, have […]
Tags: Radiology
October 31, 2011
Mayo’s innovation team thinks big, moves fast to transform medical care
Many a Minnesotan has exhausted treatment options with local doctors and traveled to the Mayo Clinic. Sure, they were grateful for the gold-standard care. Still, the trek to Rochester took time and money. Now, hundreds of patients are seeing Mayo doctors without leaving home. They and/or their local doctors do so via video hookups or […]
October 28, 2011
Mayo runs the latest IT along with advanced medical care
The Mayo Clinic is a great place for diverse techies. It has a huge and cutting-edge homegrown IT shop that uses the latest technology for everything from research to billing, a female cardiologist who chairs the clinic’s extensive diversity outreach initiatives for employees, and multiple work venues: the original and world-famous clinic in Rochester, MN […]
October 27, 2011
ICU Data Mart: A Non-IT Approach
Daryl J. Kor, Man Li, and Brian W. Pickering, A Team of Clinicians, Researchers and Informatics Personnel at the Mayo Clinic have Taken a Homegrown Approach to Building an ICU Data Mart. As technology consumers, we have come to expect a high level of functionality on the computerized systems we have come to depend on […]
October 11, 2011
Telemedicine to be in area schools, living facilities
It will mean doctors and patients can have meaningful visits remotely, at Home and Community Options (HCO), it means remote monitoring at night for one group home, and residents at Saint Anne of Winona and Watkins Assisted Living will soon be able to see a specialist at the Mayo Clinic without leaving their homes. Winona […]
October 4, 2011
Navigating the Net Wisely in a Health Crisis
Christy Schulz, 43, a wife and the mother of two school-age children in Hudson, Wis., was struggling to keep track of the family’s medical records through three major moves in 10 years. Through a record-keeping system offered online by the Mayo Clinic (powered by Microsoft HealthVault), Ms. Schulz was able to store all the relevant […]
September 7, 2011
RSNA Image Share enrolls first patients
RSNA Image Share, the RSNA network designed to provide patients with easy access and control of their medical images and reports, has entered into clinical practice. The network will facilitate access to imaging exams for patients and physicians with a goal of enabling better informed medical decisions through improved information sharing…The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, […]
April 21, 2010
Canadian doctors now will be able to look at a stroke patient’s brain scan and other diagnostic images on an iPhone after a Calgary research team received Health Canada approval for its software application… The Resolution MD Mobile Software lets physicians view and manipulate remote medical images in high-resolution 3-D on the iPhone G3, […]
Tags: Health IT, iPhone app