I have been invited by the Government of Belize to deliver a talk and lead a session on Cybersecurity Issues in Healthcare on April 24-27th in Belize City, Belize as part of the Belize National Cyber Security Symposium. This Symposium is hosted by the Belize Public Utilities Commission on behalf of the Government of Belize […]
Both Ram and I presented papers at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI2017) conference that wrapped up earlier today in Orlando, FL and are happy to report that our talk our GeoHealth Dashboard was well received indeed. The GeoHealth Dashboard My talk focused on the GeoHealth Dashboard we have built over the past […]
Ever wonder why Health IT hasn’t revolutionized healthcare as IT has most every industry in the world? We do – and finding how IT can still improve healthcare is one of the reasons Health Solutions Research exists. Information Technology, and advances in technology in general,typically decreases costs throughout the value chain from supplier through consumer, […]
The accuracy rate for information contained within an electronic health records system (EHR) is only 50%. That is, only half that data can be assumed to be accurate – the rest is wrong. A February 27th article in Modern Healthcare highlights some of the reasons why, within an Emergency Room (ER) setting at least- • […]