Smart Eye Check

Ever noticed how most people, particularly the young ones under age 40 take their eye health for granted. This BBC study shows that young people don’t go for regular eye checks until something goes wrong?

E-Signatures in Healthcare-Webcast Review

Broadcast live on May 20, 2015; 60 mins; Healthcare Informatics webcast presented by John Fraser CTO, Lifesprk  and Mary Ellen Power VP Marketing, e-SignLive^TM by Silanis; available at Healthcare Informatics   and via YouTube.

I just finished watching a 2015 Webinar from Health Informatics on Streamlining Healthcare Processes with E-Signatures. The video below demonstrates how e-signature works.

Real-Time Intelligence Helps Match Beds and Patients

White paper: Healthy, wealthy and wise

Author: Hewlett-Packard Company

 

Hospitals are recognizing that better patient flow management improves the quality of care, resource utilization, and cost-efficiency (AHA Solutions and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence HPOE, 2012). The aim of this white paper is to explain how the use of integrated bed management solution is improving healthcare by providing better patient flow management.

Three-Dimensional (3D) Printing In Healthcare

Paper:  Medical Applications For 3D Printing: Current and Projected Uses

Author: C. Lee Ventola, MS

 

 

The aim of this journal is to explain how 3D printing of medical applications is used to improve healthcare. The inventions of 3D printer by Charles Hull has revolutionized healthcare (Gross, et al 2014). The author points that Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Thermal Inkjets (TIJ) and Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) are the common technologies that 3D printing uses in medical applications (Cui, Boland et al 2012 and Hoy, 2013).

Reducing Medication Errors with Information Technology

  White Paper: Reducing the Frequency of Errors in Medicine Using Information Technology

Authors: David, W. B. et al.

 

 

The authors of the white paper have explained how information technology (IT) aids the reduction and prevention of medication errors in healthcare. The white paper describes how the implementation of healthcare applications use bar-code technology to develop a real-time medication administration record (David 2000).

Health Care in the Era of Social Media

Paper Title: The Evolution of Healthcare Applications in the Web 2.0 Era

Authors: Iraklis Varlamis and Ioannis Apostolakis

This paper helps us understand the development of healthcare applications using web 2.0 tools and the impact it has on healthcare management.

Reflections on Information Systems Module 1

Information Systems: Looking into the future

 

“Around the world, we are seeing the rapid development and spread of new information and communication technologies. They are having lasting effects on our daily lives, society and the global transfer of knowledge and expertise.”

By Munchner Kreis