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Are We There Yet?…Almost
The interoperability challenge has plagued hospitals and health systems for longer than any of us care to admit. The topic still elicits eye-rolls and cringes from everyone from health care reporters...
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Making it Real: A Physician’s Pathway to Clinical Transformation
Everyone in the industry would likely agree that “clinical” or “care transformation” has been a popular buzz-term for the past several years. Most also agree that interoperability barriers and data...
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Dignity Health Guest Post: The Provider View of Mobile Interoperability
Dignity Health is one of the five largest health systems in the U.S., with a presence in 17 states and expertise and services around a number of key specialties. In the Arizona service area, we’re...
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My Wish List: FDA Mobile Medical App Regulation
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s recent questions to FDA are seeking much-needed clarification of the agency’s policy of regulating certain mobile medical apps as medical devices. I’m very...
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Getting at the Heart of Readmissions
I will always stay true to my belief that health systems need to take an enterprise-wide approach to mobility. But at the same time, I’m often asked by hospitals CEOs and CIOs how they should...
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Is Technology Turning Hospitals Into MD Machines?
Many of my fellow clinicians see the ongoing health IT movement as a hindrance to the quality of care they are able to provide their patients. When they hear all this talk about “automation,”...
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CommonWell Health Alliance – Big Stride or Baby Steps?
You’ve all heard my thoughts on mobility as the critical lynchpin for healthcare to achieve true clinical transformation. And, that one of the longest standing and most stubborn barriers to mobility is...
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Taking the Pulse of Cardiovascular Services
Mobility is making an impact on cardiovascular services – ranging from expedited STEMI care pathways to readmission reductions for congestive heart failure (CHF) and intermittent dysrhythmias. Taking a...
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Mobility in Cardiovascular Services – Beyond Mobile ECGs
Health systems are facing several pressures based on the current and projected state of cardiovascular services. Growth is declining and reimbursement trends will squeeze margins of a service line that...
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The Heart of Mobility – Where Minutes Matter Most
Montefiore Medical Center is a pioneer when it comes to adopting technologies that enhance the quality of care. We were among the first healthcare systems to adopt electronic medical records (EMRs) and...
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Healthcare in the Heartland
When I’m not heads down in data points on how hospitals around the country are going mobile, I spend time volunteering as a clinician with the Rural Health Clinic of the Cumberlands, a free clinic for...
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CMOs: 3 Ways to Look Before Taking the mHealth Plunge
At Vanguard Health Systems, our vision for mobility is focused on streamlining and optimizing workflow, consistently advancing best practices and ultimately achieving measurable outcomes improvement...
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Mobile Health Mathematics: Solving the Equation for Mobility
While most hospitals and health systems are in agreement that mobility will play a key role in their future, many are overwhelmed on where to start. Each organization has its own unique infrastructure,...
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Bringing Mobile Capabilities to the…Desktop?
The demand for patient-centric tools to mobilize EMR and medical device data in a single viewer is obvious. All the major providers I talk to, including Dignity Health and Ardent Health, already have a...
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The Promise of Mobility: A Cardiac Surgeon’s Perspective
When I talk to fellow clinicians at Sequoia Hospital who are now using mobility to monitor labor and delivery patients, or view ECGs in near real-time, the reactions are uniformly positive. They praise...
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Old is the New “New” – Engaging Physicians Through Mobility
As incentives increasingly align between physicians and hospitals for value-based care delivery, health system CMOs face an interesting challenge. The last one to two decades witnessed an...
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Believe It or Not, FDA Regulation IS mHealth’s Friend
The Food and Drug Administration should take action and immediately release the final Mobile Medical Applications guidance document. As you may have guessed from the title of this post, my opinion is...
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What’s Critical to Critical Care
The ICU and its workforce play a central role in health systems’ – and patients’ – overall health, with the department accounting for 10 percent of total in-patient beds and 30 percent of in-patient...
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Infographic: How Mobility Impacts the Cardiac Patient’s Journey
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An Industry Retrospective Demands a Call to Action
With National Health IT Week underway, I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of the industry. But when I look back over the last several months, rather than progress, I see mounting challenges and...
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