Foreword

Healthcare’s Transformation

Data and mobility lead the way

Advancements in technology are at the heart of improved healthcare outcomes. Two such advancements that are currently in the spotlight deal with improved data management and mobile computing.

Information Technology

Connectivity in Healthcare a Foundation for Quality Care

Leveraging the 12 best practices for health IT to improve care and reduce costs

The healthcare landscape is more complex and multidimensional than ever. 12 health IT best practices developed will help healthcare executives,...

The EHR

Climbing the Adoption Curve

The electronic health record and its related technologies are new innovations that hold the promise of transforming healthcare. Nonetheless, all innovations encounter an uphill struggle of adoption.

How ‘Meaningful Use’ and Health IT Collaboration are Enabling the Evolution of Healthcare

Transforming healthcare will require a broad, interoperable Health IT system allowing healthcare providers to share and use patient data reliably and securely.

Data Exchange and Analytics

The use of clinical information beyond the patient encounter is decisively lacking. To create an environment where organisaions achieve continuous health maintenance,...

Accessing Health Data

Striking a balance between security and usability

Health data must be managed and utilised wisely or analysts / users may risk losing access to the very information that is vital to improving healthcare. Data stewards must apply...

Personal Connected Health

The technology revolution in healthcare

High costs, inconsistent quality, disparities in access, and resource inefficiencies are creating pressure to adopted connected health. Remote patient monitoring is showing positive results and the market for health technologies is growing.

How an ICT-based System to Monitor Gait Can Make a Difference in Asia

A gait screening tool used in a variety of applications is described. Details of a longitudinal study on elderly people attending an exercise class are provided.

Evolving and Enabling Standards for Mobile Health Adoption

Although providers see mHealth's promise to increase productivity in the healthcare system, they still exhibit reservations in moving quickly to adopt this new technology for several good reasons.

Clinician Role Changes Delivering Patient - Centered Workflow

For information technology to play a valuable role in reducing healthcare costs while enhancing quality of care, it must be deployed within newly defined workflow...

Liquid Data

Fuel for Collaboration on the Road to Innovation in Healthcare

Predictive, preventive, pesonalised and participatory are the 4Ps of next-generation healthcare. This approach shifts the emphasis from reactive to preventative and from disease to wellness.

Vendor Neutral Archives

Solving the Challenges of Medical Information Management

The efficient management of medical information lies at the heart of effective patient-centred care. The industry is turning to Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA) to solve this challenge,...

Can Animation Software Help Find Cures for Cancer and HIV?

Visual effects software is more commonly associated with the movie and gaming industries, but is today being used in pharmaceutical and life science research laboratories to digitally visualise,...

Make Big Data Economical and Actionable for Faster and Better Healthcare

Visual effects software is more commonly associated with the movie and gaming industries, but is today being used in pharmaceutical and life science research laboratories to digitally visualise,...