The Business Value of Taxonomy by Earley Information Science, Inc. Click to access EIS-Whitepaper-Business-Value-Taxonomy-2016.pdf Customers demand the ability to find and access information easily. Managers need quick access to accurate and reliable information to quickly respond to market changes. Employees want to spend less time validating information accuracy and recreating ‘lost’ documents. Real-world uses forContinue reading “The Business Value of Taxonomy”
Category Archives: Health IT
Education as Social Determinants of Health Visualization for male and female
http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/global-educational-attainment-1970-2015 Zambia 2010 15 to 44 Females 6.89 Zambia 2010 25 plus Males 7.25 Zambia 2010 25 plus Females 4.85 Zambia 2010 25 plus Both 6.05 Zimbabwe 2010 15 to 44 Females 9.05 Zimbabwe 2010 25 plus Males 8.09 Zimbabwe 2010 25 plus Females 6.39 Zimbabwe 2010 25 plus Both 7.24 Afghanistan 2011 15 toContinue reading “Education as Social Determinants of Health Visualization for male and female”
Mobile Health IT News
Three CEOs share their visions for the future of telemedicine By Heather Mack While the word “telemedicine” was once considered a catch-all term for any type of healthcare service administered remotely, it’s become evident over the last decade that the word can be applied to the myriad virtual care services, tools and companies out thereContinue reading “Mobile Health IT News”
Cancer rates based on sex and race in the USA during the last 9 years
How telemedicine pulled one rural hospital back from the brink of bankruptcy
by Evan Sweeney | A renewed focus on telemedicine helped an Idaho medical center regain its financial footing. (Getty/AndreyPopov) How telemedicine pulled one rural hospital back from the brink of bankruptcy by Evan Sweeney | A renewed focus on telemedicine helped an Idaho medical center regain its financial footing. Facing a declining population, one 14-bedContinue reading “How telemedicine pulled one rural hospital back from the brink of bankruptcy”
Prepare for the Digital Health Revolution
Sy Mukherjee The business of medicine is inefficient, expensive, and ripe for disruption. Here are 21 companies that are using technology to reinvent it—and to change our lives in the process. There are many choices we make over the course of our lives. Some are fairly insignificant, like the clothes we put on in theContinue reading “Prepare for the Digital Health Revolution”
Sugar , transfat and poor lifestyle – causes of American death in last 35 years
Smoking , alcohol, meds/drugs and poor lifestyle (absence of exercise, clean water, air and whole foods) contributed to poor health in the southern part of the United States. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/mortality-rates-united-states/cardiovascular/#2014
Know your baseline health data without medical insurance – join in this study
In knowing what is normal and not normal in many of our bodily functions, fluids and other biometrics, we can find health cures from health data generated from these biometrics. Today, an organization is set to study these health data. Biometrics is the measurement and statistical analysis of people’s physical and behavioral characteristics. Learn aboutContinue reading “Know your baseline health data without medical insurance – join in this study”
Help!Need your voice in creating a site for older adults in areas of health and aging
At 40 yrs of age, we have lived half of our life and the next 40+ years is savoring each moment of our life with good health and prosperity. Many of us will create innovative ideas and share them with others. I am calling for all to define what would be the most useful siteContinue reading “Help!Need your voice in creating a site for older adults in areas of health and aging”
A healthy dose of machine and cognitive technology for health care
Short takes…on Analytics A blog by Dan Housman, director, Deloitte Consulting LLP Fantasy? Fiction? The future? Health care isn’t the only industry realizing the challenges and benefits posed by advances in cognitive technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). But it is an industry quickly leveraging these cutting-edge advances, especially in the areas of research,Continue reading “A healthy dose of machine and cognitive technology for health care”
Using Blockchain to move secured patient data
By Megan Moltini THIS MORNING, SENATE Republicans moved Rep. Tom Price one step closer to the highest office of public health, rolling over a Democratic boycott in the finance committee and advancing his confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services to a full Senate vote. But while Dems still have plenty of unanswered questionsContinue reading “Using Blockchain to move secured patient data”
Health Data and patient-provider engagement using technology
Recent surveys from the Pew Research Center indicate that a majority of U.S. adults use technology to engage in their health care: 63% of adult cell phone owners now use their phones to go online, a figure that has doubled since 2009. In addition, 34% of these cell internet users say that most of theirContinue reading “Health Data and patient-provider engagement using technology”
Veterans Health Care Benefits and Utilization 2013-2014
Health Care News
From RockHealth.org Congress said I do to Tom Price who inherits an increasingly vocal constituency as head of HHS. A match made in heaven: Our own Iodine merged with GoodRx to help consumers find the right drugs. It wasn’t meant to be. A federal judge blocked the Anthem-Cigna deal, the second failed health insurer merger in recent history,Continue reading “Health Care News”