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The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend presents enterprises with a number of significant challenges to go along with the potential benefits. Certainly there are positives associated with letting employees use their own computing devices to access enterprise resources (especially mobile technologies such as tablets and smartphones), including reduced costs and enhanced productivity. More

What will doctor’s appointments be like in 2015 – and where and when will these encounters occur? Will you be meeting your doctor from the comfort of your own kitchen table, via video conference? Will you be able to send questions and images to your physician’s office via your phone to get consultation about an injury or illness? More

I was chatting with a friend the other day about how to get people’s attention in this information-overload age, and we decided that the use of buzzwords was a critical component of success. So I decided to test this catchy title and see if it leads to any more reader traffic than I usually get. More

Several pandemics and non-communicable diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa, continue to plague developing regions all over of the world. Just as necessary as clean water and food, strong public actions are required to monitor these diseases and ensure each region has affordable, immediate access to healthcare, resources and equipment. And in rural and developing regions where basic infrastructures such as electricity and roads are inadequate, many underserved clinics are turning to mobile health, or mHealth. The worldwide trend of using mobile phones for health represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving public health in impoverished or hard-to-reach regions. More

With the May 7 deadline for the Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) public comments just days away, let's take a quick look at how the next round of MU is ushering in more patient engagement and how mobile technology is one aspect of the modern healthcare practice that has the potential to contribute to electronic health record adoption. More

Telemedicine, as defined by the American Telemedicine Association, is “the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients’ health status.” Multiple factors are driving the attraction of telemedicine – the ACA which is paving the way for millions of previously uninsured people to be covered (pending the SCOTUS decision); an aging population of baby boomers hitting the Medicare-eligible age; incentives for healthcare cost-decreasing initiatives; and the economic stimulus package of 2009, which earmarks money to increase bandwidth for rural telemedicine technologies. More

On July 19, 1989, a DC-10 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, killing more than a third of its passengers. Survivors said it was a miracle anyone lived, and members of the flight crew were hailed as heroes. The tail section and right wing broke off as the plane caught fire, bounced and flipped upside down. Debris was scattered as far away as 75 miles. The cause: Microscopic cracks in the plane’s fan disk that formed when the disk was made. These tiny imperfections could have been prevented and should have been discovered during inspection. They were small links in a complex chain of parts that went into creating the airliner. But they failed. More

Imagine a physician, faced with a difficult problem while performing a surgery, calling up a solution that’s displayed on his glasses. Or a nurse in a remote location being able to transmit exactly what she’s seeing on a patient back to a specialist. More

Obviously, promoting the viability of mHealth is what mHIMSS is all about. The unleashed benefits of adopting mobile technologies that can ultimately enhance the quality of healthcare while reducing its inflated costs would benefit everyone throughout the ecosystem – from doctors and patients to hospitals and insurers. More