Communicating the IT strategic plan is one of the primary responsibilities of a CIO. Most importantly, the IT strategic plan should be seen as an enterprise wide activity and not just an IT centric exercise. IT should be an enabler for the strategy of the business and every IT tactic should tie back to a high priority of the business. In 2016, the BIDMC IT strategic plan has five pillars that align with quality, safety and efficiency imperatives (instead of Meaningful Use, ICD10, and the Affordable Care Act as was the case 2013-2015). The pillars are:
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Forces & Trends That Will Impact The Laboratory Informatics Market In 2014
Staff Writer | Labmate Online | December 3, 2013
[...] Michael Shanler, Research Director at Gartner, John Wise, Executive Director at The Pistoia Alliance and Gernot Goeller, Head O&I CoE ED &CMC at Bayer Pharma took part in a series of interviews surrounding the key trends that will impact the laboratory informatics industry in 2014 and beyond. Read More »
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Ford Goes Open Source To Speed App Development
Doug Newcomb | Wired | March 1, 2013
In the ecosystem gamble of “open” or “closed,” Ford is putting all its chips on open. At this week’s Mobile World Congress, Ford announced it’s releasing the proprietary source code for its Sync AppLink platform to Genivi, an automotive-centric open source alliance. Read More »
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Get Set For The Digital Health Festival
Staff Writer | eHealth Insider | March 13, 2014
EHealth Insider is launching a new Digital Health Festival to “take the pulse of digital health.” Taking inspiration from music and cultural festivals, there will be a series of conferences, meetings and social events taking place at different venues at different times from 30 April to 16 May.
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Google Android Software Is Not As Free Or Open-Source As You May Think
Charles Arthur and Samuel Gibbs | Business Insider | January 30, 2014
Some mobile and tablet manufacturers are being charged six-figure fees by third party testing facilities for a license to use Gmail, Google Play and other parts of Google's mobile services, the Guardian has learned. Read More »
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Halamka Outlines the Pillars of Beth Israel's IT Strategic Plan
By John D. Halamka, MD | February 25, 2016
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Health & Wellness Wireless Sensor Networks To Be Worth $16 Billion In 2017, Says ON World
Press Release |
ON World |
March 13, 2013
ON World’s recently published report covers 16 unique wireless sensing applications that are transforming health and wellness for chronic disease management, operational management, assisted care and general wellness. Read More »
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Health Information Errors Cited Among Top 10 Health IT Hazards
Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | November 6, 2012
Three of the 10 top health technology hazards cited in a report from ECRI Institute deal with errors in information management. Read More »
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How Praekelt.org and Open Source Provide Critical Services to Enable Social Change
By Swapnil Bhartiya | December 26, 2016
In Eastern and Southern Africa, women are still dying unnecessarily during the basic, natural act of giving life. According to Unicef, “In 2010, close to 58,000 women lost their lives during pregnancy and childbirth, accounting for more than one fifth of all such deaths in the world.” Gustav Praekelt, founder of the South African design and development firm Praekelt.com, was deeply affected by the high maternal mortality rate in his country and realized in 2007 that open source software and mobile phones could help provide critical information and services to combat poverty and maternal mortality rates -- among other social issues -- across the continent and potentially around the world.
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How Telecoms Can Escape Vendor Lock-In With Open Source NFV
By Jonathan Gershater | June 5, 2015
Today, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) takes software applications that run on proprietary hardware and allows them to run on standard x86 servers. This allows core network infrastructure to dynamically allocate network, compute and storage to satisfy workloads on-demand. It also allows you to move these workloads to different servers, or even different data centers as needed, and to scale up or scale down without changing the underlying hardware. NFV provides you with a modern agile environment to respond to customers needs, get to market quickly with new services, and reduce both capital and operational expenditures...
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Humetrix Calls for Burgess Interoperability Bill to Add Provider/Patient EHR Exchange
By Bettina Experton, MD, MPH | March 21, 2015
As a developer of several mobile personal health record applications, Humetrix supports Congressman Michael C. Burgess, MD, aim to accelerate electronic health record interoperability as expressed in his draft Health IT bill. We emphasize the need to facilitate health information exchange between providers and their patients, so that patients or their caregivers connect and exchange their personal health information with different providers as a key complement to efforts to improve health information exchange between provider systems.
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Humetrix Demos SOS QR Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Mobile Platform at FCC Accessibility Innovations Expo
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Humetrix |
October 20, 2017
Humetrix, developer of the award-winning SOS QR emergency mobile platform, last year’s recipient of the FCC Chairman’s Awards for Advancements in Accessibility (AAA), is honored to participate in this year’s FCC Accessibility Innovation Expo taking place on October 23 in Washington, DC. The Humetrix SOS QR technology has won multiple innovation awards since its first launch in 2014 being recognized by the White House as an innovative technology for disaster preparedness, winning the NHS TestBed competition last year, and the 2016 FCC Chairman’s Award for Advancement in Accessibility.
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Humetrix Upgrades iBlueButton App To Support Caregivers; Demos New Features At 2014 International CES Booth 26327 Digital Health Summit
Press Release |
Blue Button, Humetrix |
January 6, 2014
Humetrix will preview version 5.0 of its signature iBlueButton app, enhanced with “caregiver” features that allow anyone to view, download and share with doctors their own medical records, as well as those of loved ones, all via their smart phone or tablet. Read More »
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IT Consumerization: A Case Study of BYOD in a Healthcare Setting
By Sarah Marshall | April 10, 2014
This article focuses on the implementation of BYOD in a healthcare setting. First, the challenges of implementing BYOD in the healthcare industry are examined. Next, a case study of The Ottawa Hospital is developed to illustrate the practical benefits and hurdles that must be overcome when hospital staff begin using consumer IT devices in the workplace. Finally, recommendations are offered to help healthcare organizations develop and implement a successful BYOD strategy. Read More »
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Larry Ponemon On Securing Regulated Data In Healthcare: Q&A
Patrick Ouellette | Health IT Security | July 8, 2013
Though mobile applications that share files through the cloud such as Box and DropBox can be appealing to consumers, the Ponemon Institute has found that these types of applications can be unsafe in a clinical environment. [...] Read More »
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Majority Of Surveyed Docs Using Mobile Devices In Practices
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | July 23, 2013
Mobile computing devices are becoming almost as much of an essential tool in U.S. physician practices as the exam table, according to a new survey. Read More »
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