RFID Showcase

Coming to the AID of Healthcare

By Tom Inglesby

Many companies focus on the realm of RFID (radio frequency identification) for healthcare, and there have been some significant challenges both on the R&D side and the practitioner’s implementation side.

Clinical Analytics

EMR Implementation Is an Opportunity, Not a Guarantee

By Ahmed Ghouri, MD

As hospital IT leaders consider how to address meaningful use of electronic medical records (EMR) within their own organizations, they should see the next generation of EMRs as an opportunity to take arms against avoidable medical errors, improve the level of personalized medicine, and reduce hospital readmissions to boost quality scores.

Diagnostic Radiology

Critical Communication: Improving Patient Safety

By Jonathan W. Berlin, MD, MBA

The written diagnostic imaging report is the key method of communication between radiologists and referring clinicians. However, the radiology report is valuable not only for its contents, but also for the timeliness of delivery given the important subject matter of radiologic results, including, in some cases, critical findings.

Health & IT Quality

Failure Is Not an Option

By Barry P. Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS

Healthcare could learn much from Gene Kranz. A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with other mission scientists and crew, Kranz led his Tiger Team of experts at NASA in its successful effort to bring three astronauts on a perilous 500,000 mile journey around the moon and back home to Earth.