By Nancy Pratt – This past year, 2017, has been a challenging year for many industries, and healthcare is certainly no exception. Not only are there major challenges connected to an increasingly aging population and outdated healthcare infrastructure…
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By Aparna Bala – Most physicians have long enjoyed the benefits of BYOD policies. As health systems focused on ensuring doctors had access to state-of-the-art health IT to monitor their patients when they couldn’t be at the bedside.
By Kristen Hopewell – Software as a medical device (SaMD) is defined by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum as “software intended to be used for one or more medical purposes that perform these purposes without being part of a hardware medical device.”
By Angela Pierce – Over the past couple of years, there have been around 200 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the healthcare IT space, driven by high enterprise value and the sheer size of the industry. 49 deals came together in the first quarter of this year alone.
By Desiree Crawford – This is a watershed moment in healthcare. New technologies are constantly in development to help treat and prevent previously incurable conditions, and improve current processes.
By Angela Pierce – Over the last few years, the healthcare industry has undergone an incredible revolution. Mobility solutions deployed across the care continuum are providing higher quality patient care.
By Nancy Pratt – Care delivery best practices are constantly changing to optimize efficiency and safety, and look considerably different compared to just a decade ago.
By Kevin R. Ward MD – In healthcare, we constantly seek new ways to deliver and improve care. Countless ideas have already been tried and tested, and people often think that coming up with the next great innovation requires thinking ‘outside of the box.’
By Kevin R. Ward MD – We talk a lot about how we can use data to improve patient care. We discuss the importance of interoperability, the need for more available data, and how data can help spot an issue with a patient they otherwise may not have caught.