In a recent article in Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review, Jessica Cohen reports that according to a report done by IBM Institute for Business Value of healthcare CIOs and other executives, findings indicate that 71% of CIOs and only 59% of other executives believe that mobile solutions will have a significant impact on their organizations […]
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Paper, Paper Everywhere but Not a Drop of Ink
A recent article on medium.com titled “UCSF Nurses Want Someone To Build These Products” By Fiahna Cabana, Desiree Matloob, and Priyanka Agarwal includes the following: ‘Frontline nurses attend to almost all of a patient’s basic needs. In doing so, they often juggle up to 25 pieces of paper with critical information. Ideally, nurses could use […]
When in Doubt, Scan It
Whenever we visit the grocery store, we hear the constant beep of scanners from the checkout counter. In our travels in the developing world, and even in many US hospitals, we find very little scanning being used. A recent visit to a small hospital in Guyana was instructive of the digital divide between healthcare and […]