Health Care Professionals & Mobile Health IT

Mobile health IT has the capacity to provide health care professionals with the right data, at the right time and the right place. This access is fundamental in transforming the way health professionals work and provide care. It has the potential to save time and energy through every facet of the care delivery process, improving communications and opportunities for changes in how health and chronic conditions are managed, and providing better care with better outcomes.

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NoMoreClipboard, iMPak Health unveil Health Journals at HIMSS12 February 22, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The journals are designed to collect PHR information and provide a direct portal to clinicians and caregivers – all in a wireless package that's easy to use and unobtrusive  More
 
ONC wants more resources to conduct PHI privacy campaign February 22, 2012 | Diana Manos The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is seeking more information on the risk associated with accessing personal health information through mobile devices.  More
 
mHIMSS tracks at HIMSS12 attract large audiences February 22, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Standing-room-only crowds attend the first mHIMSS-themed sessions Tuesday at the HIMSS12 Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, including a session explaining how a New York-based healthcare system developed a basic mobile platform for its physicians.  More
Qualcomm shows off Qualcomm Life, 2net hub at HIMSS12 February 21, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Unveiled at last year's mHealth Summit, the San Diego-based telecommunications company's healthcare division now has partnerships in place with more than 50 mHealth vendors and providers.  More
BoxTone, Verizon, Motorola launch platform for Android-based devices February 20, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The new platform aims to enable healthcare providers to push their services out into the field – whether it be a homecare agency, a remote clinic or the battlefield – through Android-based smartphones and tablets.  More
GetWellNetwork unveils iPad capabilities for IPC solution February 17, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The developer of the popular interactive patient care solution is moving away from the hospital-based computer and laptop and giving patients and caregivers the opportunity to access information and communicate while on the move or outside the hospital room.  More
Philips Healthcare to offer a peek at its Personal Health Book project at HIMSS12 February 17, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Philips is getting ready to beta test its new post-hospital portal for patients, providers and caregivers, and will show off the PHR-like service next week in Las Vegas. The company has also announced a deal with eHealth Global Technologies to help cancer patients gather their records online.  More
HIMSS announces transfer of mHealth Summit February 16, 2012 | Eric Wicklund HIMSS has purchased the three-year-old mobile healthcare conference and exhibition from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, and will host this year's conference on Dec. 3-5 in Washington D.C.  More
Experts outline 5 patient-centered social media concerns February 14, 2012 | Michelle McNickle Social media, from Facebook to Skype to Twitter, is making its presence known in the healthcare universe. And with those new methods of communication come new risks of disclosing sensitive data.  More
New Jersey physician puts mobility to the test (and gets home in time for dinner) February 13, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Whether he's at home, in the air or on vacation, Richard L. Corson uses his laptop to keep in touch with his office. His mastery of mobility puts him on the leading edge of today's IT-enabled healthcare landscape.  More
University challenge targets NCDs with mHealth and social media February 10, 2012 | Mike Miliard A global competition sponsored by IBM and Novartis has yielded social media and mobile technology tools that could help tackle non-communicable diseases such as asthma, diabetes, stroke and cancer.  More
Qualcomm announces investment in AirStrip Technologies February 9, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The telecommunications giant, which launched its Qualcomm Life subsidiary at last year's mHealth Summit, is throwing its support behind AirStrip, which creates the technology platform to link physicians via mobile devices to patient data collected in EMRs, at the bedside and through home-based monitoring devices.  More
Book review: A common sense approach to enabling mHealth February 22, 2012 | Ritch Blasi As mHealth continues to be over-hyped by those in the healthcare and mobile communications industries, “mHealth From Smartphones to Smart Systems” might be the antidote needed to inject some reality into all the hype.  More
New mHIMSS app debuts at HIMSS12 February 22, 2012 | The mHIMSS Workgroups The mHIMSS team is proud to announce the release of the mHIMSS app, which is available on Android and iOS marketplaces.  More
Five events signaling the arrival of mHealth February 20, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD There have been many predictions of when mHealth technologies will break through in a big way. I will mention what I consider a few important recent events which are indicative of mHealth technology’s ‘arrival’ in the mainstream healthcare arena.  More
Pharma looks to mobile strategies to effectively reach prescribers February 17, 2012 | Sanjay Pingle It is well documented that the pharma industry is facing many challenges in 2012. Drug makers are losing exclusive patents on drugs that have matured, causing unexpected losses of revenue in the billions of dollars. As a result, companies are cutting costs and significantly reducing their sales force – which in turn creates the new challenge of reaching practices and hospitals with fewer face-to-face office visits.  More
Five reasons why digital health technologies need FDA oversight February 15, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD A draft proposal of the FDA guidelines for regulating mobile medical applications was released in July, 2011. In response, the mHealth Regulatory Coalition sent detailed comments on the proposal.  More
An update from the mHIMSS Workgroups: Looking to HIMSS12 and beyond February 15, 2012 | The mHIMSS Workgroups The mHIMSS community is looking forward to the start of many new things before, during and after HIMSS12.  More
Identifying the challenges and opportunities in mobility February 15, 2012 | Rob Shaughnessy Over the last six months I've had the pleasure of talking to many professionals leading mobile initiatives – from global telecommunications companies concerned with the impact mobile computing is having on their infrastructures to small companies looking to leverage the hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available from the many public and private app stores. From the largest to the smallest, there are very common themes in the challenges being faced.  More
How do we love our mobile devices? Let me count the ways. February 14, 2012 | Edna Boone, MA, CPHIMS How do I love thee? Let me count the ways … 5.6 billion cell phones worldwide  More
The perils of mobile health February 10, 2012 | Matthew Grob, CPHIMS, FHIMSS I promised readers a follow-up to my last entry, “Look Ma, No Wires” but I thought that with the upcoming HIMSS annual conference and the number of people in one place who will be relying on mobile devices while away from the office, it was a good opportunity to make people aware of the perils of using these devices.  More
How do digital health technologies get to older patients? February 8, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD Much of the digital health technologies on the market today are wellness products used by the relatively younger segment of the population.  More
Bring your own device (BYOD) to work - should we even go there? February 3, 2012 | Farida Bambot Technology-savvy consumers are clamoring for the convenience of the “coolest” mobility devices in the workplace.  More
Lee Kim: FDA, devices, mobile, and you! February 3, 2012 | The mHIMSS Workgroups February's monthly mHIMSS Mobile Task Force meeting will include a presentation from Lee Kim on the subject of "FDA Regulations on Medical Device Data Systems (MDDS)."  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // The Untethered Doctor: Getting Your Practice on Board with mHealth January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // The Untethered Doctor: Getting Your Practice on Board with mHealth  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // Being Four Places at Once: Mobile Device Situational Awareness January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // Being Four Places at Once: Mobile Device Situational Awareness  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // Global Mobile — A View from the Other Side January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // Global Mobile — A View from the Other Side  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // Finally Catching Up with the Mobile Physician January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // Finally Catching Up with the Mobile Physician  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // What Mobility Innovation Means to Healthcare January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH mHealth Summit 2011 - HIT x.0 Track // What Mobility Innovation Means to Healthcare  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - Research Track // Department of Defense mCARE January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH Session presentations describe the Department of Defense mCare project designed to assist soldiers recovering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated disorders.  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - Research Track // Maternal and Child Health: Focus on Africa January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH Session presentations describe research on the integrated management of childhood illness (ICMI) and other maternal and child health efforts in African countries.  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - Research Track // NIH Gene, Environment, and Health Initiative (GEI) January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH Session presentations report on results of projects from the NIH GEI Exposure Biology program, an environmental technology development program to produce and validate new methods for monitoring environmental exposures that interact with a genetic variation to result in human diseases.  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - Research Track // Population Surveillance and Emergency Response January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH Session presentations describe the use of mobile technologies for mapping urban health assets, tracking adverse events from influenza vaccines, and responding to the Haiti Earthquake.  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - Research Track // mHealth Evidence Workshop Report January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH National and global scientists, policymakers, health professionals, technologists, and representatives from regulatory and funding agencies gathered on August 16, 2011 for the mHealth Evidence Workshop to discuss and identify more effective methods to generate evidence of efficacy and effectiveness for the emerging science of mobile health (mHealth). The meeting was sponsored by the Pioneer program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the McKesson Foundation, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes at the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. Session presentations will describe the discussion and recommendations from the mHealth Evidence Workshop.  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - Research Track // Diabetes Management January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH Session presentations describe a range of research on mobile technologies applied to diabetes and kidney disease, including a cluster randomized trial of mobile phone diabetes management and a theory-based behavior change program for self-management of diabetes.  More
mHealth Summit 2011 - Research Track // Maternal and Child Health January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH Session presentations report on the efficacy of mobile technologies to improve delivery, postpone subsequent pregnancy, and encourage breastfeeding. The session also includes a presentation on the USAID MCHIP Quality of Care Facility Assessment.  More
2011 mHIMSS Mobile Technology Survey December 5, 2011 | mHIMSS This study provides information on a multitude of aspects related to mobile and wireless technology in health care organizations including general use of mobile technology, access to patient data, means for securing information, and the benefits and barriers to use.  More
Exploring Mobile Health Consumer Trends January 17, 2012 | Rosemary Nelson, MSN, MA, RN-BC, CPHIMS Mobile technology is all around us, and is impacting all facets of one’s life in day-to-day living activities, business and healthcare. Mobile health (mHealth), a term used for the practice of medicine and public health, supported by mobile devices, has emerged in recent years primarily based on the rapid rise of mobile phone penetration.  More
Toward an mHealth Ecosystem: Extending Access, Remote Connectivity and Engagement January 9, 2012 | mHIMSS According to the CDC and NIH, over 50 percent of the factors related to personal health can be traced to lifestyle choices, while only 10 percent is related to the medical care system. This finding illustrates a stark truth: the US healthcare system in its current incarnation, a system of facility based, episodic care, is insufficient to the task of improving population health.  More
Ten Predictions for 2012 on Smartphones in Hospitals January 3, 2012 | mHIMSS With emerging capabilities far beyond phone calls, email, and even access to medical apps, smartphones have kicked off a communications revolution. Given this changing environment, we assembled a roundtable of industry and technology experts to compile this list of what 2012 will mean for smartphone use in hospitals.  More
Trends in Mobile Medicine: Smartphone Apps for Physicians December 28, 2011 | mHIMSS For physicians, the point-of-care has shifted from a clinical setting to anywhere the physician accesses data. Yet some hospitals are slower to embrace the technology citing cost and security concerns when integrated with patient electronic health records (EHRs). This is changing.  More
Enabling Collaborative Healthcare Delivery: Care Coordination Strategies with 21st Century Technology December 15, 2011 | mHIMSS This paper, based on a roundtable session featuring John Mattison of Kaiser Permanente, identifies the building blocks of care coordination and the innovative technologies being deployed to support continuity of care by visionary health systems and the healthcare IT vendor community.  More
Where Information and Care Meet: Secure Mobile Healthcare Solutions that Drive Care Coordination December 15, 2011 | mHIMSS This paper, based on a roundtable session featuring Liz Johnson of Tenet Healthcare Corp., examines how leading hospitals and health systems in the country are implementing mobile point of care, sharing best practices and lessons learned, to deliver real-time, high-quality care anywhere.  More
The Healthcare IT Innovation Imperative: Harnessing the Power of Technology for 21st Century Care Models December 15, 2011 | mHIMSS This paper, based on a roundtable session moderated by Eric Dishman, highlights how the private and public sectors in the U.S. and Europe are unleashing the power of data in innovative ways to improve the quality of care while making the system more efficient and cost-effective.  More
Unique Challenges of Health Care Networks and the Value of Wireless November 29, 2011 | mHIMSS Medical applications are among the most demanding users of network capacity, real-time performance, mission-critical reliability, and data security. Hospitals and medical centers are accelerating the pace of accessing and storing patient records via EMRs. Considering that data centers storing these records are often not connected to the main hospital, or medical office building, all this adds up to an explosion of information straining existing network infrastructure.  More
Cutting Through the Hype: Evaluating Tablet PCs for Point-of-Care Productivity November 29, 2011 | mHIMSS Tablet PCs are more popular than ever. They're mobile, powerful and proven to help clinicians enhance productivity and efficiency. However, with more tablet PCs available than ever before, how do you choose the right tablet PC for your workflow?  More
Providing Wireless Technology for Healthcare Transformation November 29, 2011 | mHIMSS The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing a game-changing transformation in the way it delivers care. The “meaningful use” requirements under the HITECH Act, the new payment and delivery reform model under the PPACA and the consumer movement are all converging to help create a system that improves the quality of care and clinical outcomes, drives workflow efficiencies, and reduces and manages cost. Forward-thinking healthcare providers, payers and suppliers are taking up the challenge and looking to health IT to enable the new delivery system. Healthcare stakeholders are embracing mobility technology as a viable solution.  More
Defining an EMR and HIE Strategy for Medical Imaging November 29, 2011 | mHIMSS Healthcare organizations are seeking to deliver a robust EMR that’s accessible from multiple points of care. It’s what your patient and medical communities are loudly demanding - with the goal of gaining increased access to patient medical records, and enhanced capabilities with the records themselves. One vital component of an EMR is often overlooked: feature-rich, easy access to integrated, patient-centric, archived medical imaging records.  More
Txt4Health: Using Mobile Health Technology in the New Orleans Beacon Community February 15, 2012 | Anjum Khurshid PhD, MBBS (MD), MPAff The New Orleans Beacon Community is currently using Txt4Health approaches to reduce healthcare costs, improve population health, and enhance patient experiences when engaging in healthy practices. This program assists individuals with diabetes through SMS texting to educate and improve patients dealing with chronic disease.  More
Secure 2-Way Messaging Program Improves Care, Appointment Attendance February 7, 2012 | mHIMSS The Army’s mCare program targets soldiers serving in the Community Based Warrior in Transition Units (CBWTU) program, which enables those with mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) and other wounds to receive medical care and perform military support missions as they heal. A HIPAA-compliant, two-way messaging application based on Diversinet’s MobiSecure® platform was proven during a one-year pilot program, continued and expanded under a five-year contract. mCare addresses the challenges of providing secure case management for geographically dispersed patients who require varied interdisciplinary treatments and use diverse mobile devices.  More
Advances in Wireless Technologies for Healthcare: Do’s and Don’ts of Medical Device Integration February 16, 2012 | mHIMSS Medical devices can no longer be seen as standalone components and have been targeted in Meaningful Use Phase 3 as a potential integration point. Creating connected devices, especially wireless ones, is a major requirement for most manufacturers but are not easy to architect because many medical devices are still based on traditional proprietary communication technologies and integration is notoriously difficult. Join device connectivity expert and software architect Shahid Shah to learn some practical "do's and dont's" of medical device to health IT software connectivity.  More
An Overview by Sanjay Patel on the Role of mHealth in Federal and Public Health Applications February 14, 2012 | mHIMSS A presentation given at the mHIMSS Monthly Task Force Meeting on 1/13/2012, Sanjay Patel presents on the role of mHealth in public health and use by federal agencies. The presentation also covers strategies for developing mobile applications.  More
Mobility for Healthcare: The Choices and Challenges February 6, 2012 | mHIMSS Mobility in health care has been much hyped, but the industry is still underestimating its value to enable business process management. This webinar looks at the degree of expectation and adoption of mobile computing as well as the challenges of rapidly advancing technology and the difficult issues of security and management.  More
Wireless/Wired Networks Purpose Built for Clinical Workflows February 3, 2012 | mHIMSS Perceived success for EMR initiatives depends on your clinician’s user experience. This webinar will focus on wired/wireless networking best practices from Western Maryland Health System and Memorial Health Systems of East Texas to implement a purpose built network supporting healthcare clinical workflows and guaranteeing SLAs for consistent and secure access to clinical applications.  More
mHIMSS at HIMSS12 and Beyond: A Primer on the Many Opportunities Available January 26, 2012 | mHIMSS Abstract: mHIMSS, the globally-focused mobile initiative offered by HIMSS, provides timely and insightful content related to current issues, trends, and topics associated with mobile technologies.  More
Risks Associated with Medical Devices and Mobile Medical Devices January 17, 2012 | mHIMSS This webinar discusses the current threats and risks associated with mobile devices, and in addition will review the ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Hazards in Healthcare for 2012 as well as the Manufacturers Disclosure Statement for Medical Device Security (MDS2).  More
Telehealth: Get the Communications-Enabled Applications Advantage January 17, 2012 | mHIMSS In this webinar, see how Florida Hospital, a 2200 bed multi facility used a deployment of new clinical applications and technologies to improved throughput for Patient Flow; improved Patient Outcomes and Patient Safety with mobile information delivery for patient care and improved utilization and productivity enabling mobile staff with better communications tools.  More
Advances in Wireless Technologies for Healthcare - The 5 Do’s and Don’ts to Create a Safety-Critical Wireless Network January 16, 2012 | mHIMSS In this presentation you’ll learn: • What the different requirements between the various wireless environments are and how the right strategy can make you more successful. • How deploying your wireless network to support safety-critical applications will benefit all applications and services on the wireless network. • How you can learn from “best practice” standards, reference architectures and approaches that are being used in the most successful implementations.  More
Disruptive Technology Leadership: From EHRs to iPads December 9, 2011 | mHIMSS A review for IT executives of the adoption of disruptive technologies, measuring the impacts of such adoption, and an experience-based methodology of managing the process.  More
mHealth: Connecting the Inpatient and Outpatient Landscape November 29, 2011 | mHIMSS Current Healthcare delivery models are expensive, fragmented, and error prone. Communication between providers in disparate delivery settings is often haphazard at best. Mobile point of care technologies (mHealth) and HIT infrastructures are helping that to change. This webinar will help you understand how mobile technologies can safely and securely help all caregivers (Physicians, Nurses, Community Care Workers, First Responders) improve care delivery as patients transition thru various care settings (home, clinic, home). We will review the evidence and hear examples of how care coordination workflows can improve outcomes. You will better understand the mHealth tools that can best assist with care coordination in various settings.  More
Ubiquitous Wireless Enables All-Private Room Critical Care Hospital November 16, 2011 | mHIMSS This webinar will focus on VCUHS' (Virginia Commonwealth University Health System) new 275-bed all private room critical care hospital and how a unified wireless infrastructure provides caregivers a virtual link for everything from remote communication of bedside alarms to physician access to the EHR.  More
Making Healthier Wi-Fi Decisions November 16, 2011 | mHIMSS Healthcare is screaming for better wireless. From EMR/EHR applications to BCMA carts, wireless-enabled infusion pumps to wireless nurse call systems, telemetry and bedside monitoring to location tracking and even guest access, everyone wants wireless. The problem is, healthcare environments are among the worst places to get wireless to consistently work as advertised.  More
Video Presentations from The 2011 mHealth Summit, December 5 - 7 2011 January 18, 2012 | mHIMSS This webpage hosts all of the video presentations from the The 2011 mHealth Summit, December 5 - 7 2011.  More
mHealth and Mobile access to NLM resources January 16, 2012 | Paul Fontelo, MD, MPH Paul Fontelo, MD, MPH evaluates the role of social media and technology as the medical knowledge base increasing outpaces the rate of physician adoption. Dr. Fontelo explores the use of mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives and activities and the translation of evidence based medicine through mHealth and ICT4d in rural and developing areas.  More
How to Achieve 24 x7 Healthcare IT Security November 22, 2011 | mHIMSS Imagine sitting halfway around the world and checking a patient's medical records remotely, and securely, without worrying about compromising sensitive data. Possible? It's happening today with some of the country's leading healthcare providers because of advancements in data encryption, cloud computing and wireless mobility. Meet Alex Romillo, Chief Information Officer at Health Choice Networks. He oversees network security for 37 medical centers in eight states.  More
Wireless System Fits the Bill November 22, 2011 | mHIMSS HealthAlliance, a Most Wireless Award winner, uses a single-antennae system as the backbone of its secure wireless network that connects multiple mobile devices in its facility.  More
MPoC Improves Nurses' Workflow November 22, 2011 | mHIMSS See how mobile point-of-care technology is helping nurses at one Massachusetts hospital improve workflow, increase safety and spend more time with patients.  More
Mobile Technology Perfect Prescription for NE Physicians November 22, 2011 | mHIMSS Physicians at one Northeast hospital are accessing patient data, reviewing medical records and prescribing medication all with the use of an efficient wireless technology system.  More
Going Mobile: Mobile As A Disruptive Technology November 21, 2011 | mHIMSS Most people alive today would be hard pressed to remember the world before television. In the near future, the same may be true for a healthcare system before mobile technology. Mobile is quickly becoming an integral part in how doctors and patients interact. Because of the growing impact of mobile health technology, better known as mHealth, it may very well be the next disruptive technology in healthcare.  More
Ambulatory Mobility and the Mobile Clinical Assistant Platform November 15, 2011 | mHIMSS A presentation from Panasonic about Ambulatory Mobility and Mobile Clinical Assistant Platforms  More
Leveraging Unified Communications to Improve Clinical Workflow November 15, 2011 | mHIMSS Unified communications(UC) is the integration of real‐time communication services such asinstant messaging(chat),presence information,IP telephony,video conferencing,call controlandspeech recognitionwith non real‐time communication services such asunified messaging(integratedvoicemail,e‐mail,SMSandfax). UC is not a single product, but a set of products that provides a consistent unified user interface and user experience across multiple devices and media types.  More
Definitions of mHealth January 5, 2012 | mHIMSS A collection of mHealth definitions from key healthcare organizations.  More
Mobile Device Functionality: Mobile OS Comparison Matrix February 11, 2012 | Todd MacCallum The first in a series of reports, author Todd MacCallum provides an overview of mobile device operating systems. Covered in the comparisons are topics such as active directory integration, data encryption, and support for virtual applications.  More
Glossary of Terms February 6, 2012 | mHIMSS   More
mHealth: FROM SMART PHONES TO SMART SYSTEMS January 31, 2012 | mHIMSS Click on the book cover to preview a chapter from the new book mHealth: FROM SMART PHONES TO SMART SYSTEMS  More
mHIMSS events at the 2012 HIMSS Annual Conference January 31, 2012 | mHIMSS A consolidated list of mHIMSS events at the 2012 HIMSS Annual Conference.  More
5 FAQ's on SMS (Short Message Service) Text Messaging Implementation in Healthcare January 11, 2012 | mHIMSS This FAQ address common questions when implementing SMS (text) messaging within a clinical environment. The FAQ addresses important information related to privacy and security, implementation, and post implementation support related to texting.  More
Mobile Enterprise: Wireless Solutions from the C-Suite to the Field, (mobileenterprise.edgl.com) November 23, 2011 | mHIMSS Wireless and Mobile whitepaper library  More
Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices:Summary of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps November 22, 2011 | mHIMSS This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held April 13 and 14, 2010, in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Needs. The workshop was structured to gather inputs and insights from social science researchers, technologists, emergency management professionals, and other experts knowledgeable about how the public responds to alerts and warnings, focusing specifically on how the public responds to mobile alerting.  More
Position Statement on Transforming Nursing Practice through Technology & Informatics November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS The landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,”i emphasizes the importance of recognizing the vital role of nurses in transforming healthcare in our country and presents recommendations for how to promote that role in the future.  More