by Bren Hopkins | Oct 25, 2016 | Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare IT, Informatics
Data is everywhere and in many different forms. Healthcare data is diverse and complex which challenges a linear progression to derive an informed result in hopes of outcomes to improve care and patient safety and decrease cost. MULTIPLE PLACES IN MULTIPLE WAYS The...
by Bren Hopkins | Mar 10, 2016 | Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare IT, Informatics
Clinicians understand the importance leading the decision making in healthcare systems for technology that impacts patient care. According to the 576 respondents of the 2015 HIMSS Impact of Informatic Nurse Survey, informatic nurses were widely seen as bringing value...
by Bren Hopkins | Feb 27, 2016 | Digital Health, Healthcare Design
The typical nurse’s day is active and multi-faceted. A nurse may walk up to five miles in a ten-hour shift (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037121/), all the while facing fluctuating conditions throughout his or her workflow: collaborating with doctors...
by Bren Hopkins | Feb 23, 2016 | Healthcare Design
The one given across all sectors of healthcare today is that change, disruption and adaption are here. Change that will lead to improvement in effective and efficient patient care. Designers begin by understanding how people work in the real world, and then create the...
by Bren Hopkins | Feb 14, 2016 | Digital Consumer Health, Healthcare Predictions
Proponents of “the quantified self” phenomenon argue that the data we collect is for self-knowledge and self-empowerment. But, will having more data and simply knowing more won’t necessarily help us live healthier and more informed lives ? With almost five...
by Bren Hopkins | Feb 7, 2016 | Digital Consumer Health
There is No Place Like Home People treasure the safety of their home in familiar surroundings that they have built and decorated containing their happiest memories. It is no surprise seniors want to spend their aging years here. However as aging brings decline in...
by Bren Hopkins | Jan 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Bloomberg Law: 2016 Outlook on Health Care: Understand Enforcement Trends and Mitigate Risks Thursday, January 28, 2016 For more details: Click Here I will be attending and sharing information. Meet me there!
by Bren Hopkins | Jan 17, 2016 | Healthcare Predictions
It is hard to underestimate the extent to which technology could improve philanthropy. Managing donations electronically and transparently is the beginning. Through crowdsourcing, anyone with access tot he Internet can contribute money, ideas and collaboration....
by Bren Hopkins | Jan 8, 2016 | Healthcare Predictions
2016 welcomes tremendous growth is telemedicine and digital health. The healthcare industry will see a 21% increase in IT jobs by 2020, according to University of Chicago Research. Statistics show that by 2015 the mobile health market is expected to reach 24.2 billion...
by health | Dec 19, 2015 | Healthcare Predictions
Interoperability will continue to be a top issue in 2016 While over $28 Billion has been spent so far on implementing health information technology, particularly Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR), these systems are not interoperable, meaning that information does...
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