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GE Healthcare Unveils Algorithms That May Help Physicians Predict Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients

RedOrbit reports GE Healthcare Unveils Algorithms That May Help Physicians Predict Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients. An excerpt: GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced today that the company has developed two new algorithms that, when used together, may help physicians predict whether a patient is at risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). And, for the first time, the algorithms can be used in combination with technology that is portable, making diagnostic tests available to patients anytime, anywhere.

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Leveraging technology to make doctors more productive

Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, a practicing Physician in India, writes about Leveraging technology to make doctors more productive. There are some good ideas in the post, but others that I don’t agree with (Dr. Malpani doesn’t exactly understand our world). It’s worth a look, though, because it’s an outsider’s (Indian) view of our healthcare system.

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Taking patient-centric architecture to the next level

The Patient’s Home: The New Healthcare Hub audio conference announcement The Patient’s Home: The New Healthcare Hub, a December 6, 2005 audio conference, will examine how healthcare organizations are using home monitoring technologies to improve care management and reduce healthcare costs. Healthcare quality and access can be improved and healthcare costs reduced by moving care management functions away from provider offices and institutions and to the patient’s home. Home monitoring technologies move care management processes away from costly centers of care.

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Docs buying medical record systems in bulk

DoctorBlogger says: Physician practices are on the information technology hot seat these days. Everyone from industry trade groups to the federal government has announced initiatives to encourage them to adopt electronic medical records. Moreover, the technology has advanced enough to merit the investment, even by penny-pinching, under-automated medical groups. But getting EMRs into the exam rooms of the more than 470,000 office-based physicians could take decades. Imagine each office deciding on its own whether and when to adopt an EMR, handling its own vendor search, and orchestrating its own implementation.

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10 make or break steps to CPOE

Check out HealthLeaders Magazine’s November Cover Story: Bring Order to CPOE With 10 Make or Break Steps (and 5 myths). Nothing groundbreaking but it’s a good overview into computerized physician order entry system deployment. Shocker: it’s a people problem, not a technology issue! 🙂 One universally good point they make: If CPOE masters agree on one strategy, it’s this: To succeed, a CPOE implementation must be the top priority initiative across the hospital.

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We’re in the era of e-Health 2.0

There’s been a great deal of discussion in the computing and media community about Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is about the Internet becoming a platform for applications and not just a delivery vehicle for information. New technologies like AJAX are providing far more interactivity without the wait, services like Google Maps show that sophisticated web based apps are no longer tied to thick applications that have be download or provided on a CD.

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Consumer-driven healthcare provides new opportunities for legacy HCIT vendors

According to Red Herring, 46% of U.S. adults have researched a medical condition online. 36% have researched a drug or medical condition online. 12% have researched a doctor or hospital online. Why is this important? Because consumer-driven healthcare is not a fad nor a myth – it’s real, it’s here to stay, and Forrester says it’s a $16B industry. Consumer healthcare tools have been provided so far by new companies, not legacy providers.

Shahid N. Shah

What on earth does Southwest Airlines have to do with healthcare?

In the time I’ve spent in healthcare and clinical informatics I’ve spent my fair share of time with physicians. Although my experience with most physicians has been positive, there are always horror stories about how docs are unfeeling or just don’t care about patients. I’ve found Dr. Woods writings refreshingly clear and informative about how physicians think. His recent article What on earth does Southwest Airlines have to do with healthcare?

Shahid N. Shah

Use of Waterfall, Agile, XP, Scrum software development methodologies in healthcare apps

I’m conducting a survey on the various software development lifecycle methodologies that may be in use for developing healthcare IT applications inhouse or at vendors. Drop me an email about your company’s choice of methodologies. Do you use an Agile methodology like XP or Scrum or are you using a tried and true Waterfall approach? There’s been a great of movement towards Agile methods in the past few years in my non-healthcare clients but many of the medical and clinical apps don’t seem to be developed that way.

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