Microsoft Office 365 A Good Consideration as Hospitals Integrate?

There is a true appreciation for Advocate Healthcare in migrating 10 hospitals onto a single collaboration platform in Microsoft’s Office 365.  Having participated in discussions to fully review Office 365 it is not as easy as hitting the easy button and the migration is complete.  This effort by Advocate Healthcare would have taken a huge coordinated effort between all 10 hospitals along with the implementation of onsite hardware to complete this transition.  However, as more is learned about the Office 365 solution the more attractive it becomes for large enterprise email and collaboration efforts.  Especially, when you consider the coming updates for real-time collaboration.

ESPN Standup an Be a Leader

ESPN has allegedly had discussions with at least one major U.S. carrier about the plan, according to The Wall Street Journal. The two largest carriers in America, Verizon and AT&T, both carry the iPhone and both restrict new customers with capped data plans.

While this great for customers who currently pay for cable via Comcast, ATT, and others) it leaves others in rural areas without the option to utilize WatchESPN.  ESPN should use its position as an industry leader to not only provide subsidies for streaming but develop a model that allow all its fans (customers) stream WatchESPN no matter the cable carrier.

The problem with this info-graphic and the results of Ponemon Institute study.  This week results from a Ponemon Institute study on healthcare use of communication flooded various online tech news streams.  While this study has the correct focus for healthcare it has some questionable results being reported.  For example, the attache graphic references this finding in the aforementioned study: The majority of both IT and clinicians (65 percent) believe the answer is to use secure text messaging to communicate with care teams during the discharge process. In fact, they believe the total discharge time could be reduced on average about 50 minutes by using secure texting. via Ponemon Institute Where’s the hard data behind these numbers and which solution could achieve these costs.  Sorry, but stating that someone “believes” it will cut cost is not a finding worth reporting.  There needs to be actual data to support these numbers.  After reading the study a couple of times, there is still no evidence behind these “costs savings” from secure sms messages. picture courtesy of http://www.hitconsultant.net/
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The problem with this info-graphic and the results of Ponemon Institute study. 

This week results from a Ponemon Institute study on healthcare use of communication flooded various online tech news streams.  While this study has the correct focus for healthcare it has some questionable results being reported.  For example, the attache graphic references this finding in the aforementioned study:

The majority of both IT and clinicians (65 percent) believe the answer is to use secure text messaging to communicate with care teams during the discharge process. In fact, they believe the total discharge time could be reduced on average about 50 minutes by using secure texting.

via Ponemon Institute

Where’s the hard data behind these numbers and which solution could achieve these costs.  Sorry, but stating that someone “believes” it will cut cost is not a finding worth reporting.  There needs to be actual data to support these numbers.  After reading the study a couple of times, there is still no evidence behind these “costs savings” from secure sms messages.

picture courtesy of http://www.hitconsultant.net/

Amen!!! The Focus of Big Data in Healthcare Should be on Understanding the Data. For starters, that means investing in people with a keen ability to create knowledge out of data (in case you didn’t hear, the data scientist is apparently the sexiest job of the 21st century). From a wider view, maybe what this industry needs for now is actually less trying to add layer upon layer on top of new technologies and more innovation in the way of training and engaging providers, and making that technology easy for them to use. via medcitynews.com Technology can only go so far in assisting clinicians to provide better care.  If healthcare systems don’t invest in understanding the data then it will just stay data and not be transformed into information for patient care. picture courtesy of brandmagazine.com
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Amen!!! The Focus of Big Data in Healthcare Should be on Understanding the Data.

For starters, that means investing in people with a keen ability to create knowledge out of data (in case you didn’t hear, the data scientist is apparently the sexiest job of the 21st century). From a wider view, maybe what this industry needs for now is actually less trying to add layer upon layer on top of new technologies and more innovation in the way of training and engaging providers, and making that technology easy for them to use.

via medcitynews.com

Technology can only go so far in assisting clinicians to provide better care.  If healthcare systems don’t invest in understanding the data then it will just stay data and not be transformed into information for patient care.

picture courtesy of brandmagazine.com

Will solution like this from ATT be the future of “Remote Patient Monitoring”?

As hospitals begin to address patient re-admissions there will be a lot of research done on remote patient monitoring (aka Machine to Machine, M2M).  Just say through a demo of this solution and it is pretty slick and intuitive to use.  It appears the devil in the details will be how the patient data collected is synced into the patient record.

Office 365 Becomes a No Brainer for Enterprises of All Sizes

Microsoft may be late to the game with online Office web apps that have  realtime collaboration.  However, this functionality will be a big win for businesses that have not made a switch to Google Apps.  The collaboration level in Office Web Apps goes way beyond what has traditionally been offered via SharePoint.

Great use of the Microsoft Xbox in health care by Gamers Outreach. Gamers Outreach works with medical supply companies to create portable video game kiosks we like to call GO Karts (Gamers Outreach Karts). Thanks to GO Karts, hospital staff members are able to easily transport video games and other sources of entertainment to patients who have a limited amount of access to activities outside of their rooms. Long-term hospitalization can often times be a lonely, stressful, and frightening experience. GO Karts help to ease the burdens associated with hospital stays by providing sources of relief to patients.
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Great use of the Microsoft Xbox in health care by Gamers Outreach.

Gamers Outreach works with medical supply companies to create portable video game kiosks we like to call GO Karts (Gamers Outreach Karts). Thanks to GO Karts, hospital staff members are able to easily transport video games and other sources of entertainment to patients who have a limited amount of access to activities outside of their rooms.

Long-term hospitalization can often times be a lonely, stressful, and frightening experience. GO Karts help to ease the burdens associated with hospital stays by providing sources of relief to patients.

Microsoft Research Diagnosing Health via Social Media Streams

“What’s exciting is that we could identify individuals potentially at risk for having an emotional downturn just by looking at streams of publicly shared data,” in this case Twitter feeds, says Eric Horvitz, managing co-director of the Microsoft Research lab. Horvitz and his colleagues presented the results of their efforts to predict postpartum emotional and behavioral changes via social media this week at an Association for Computing Machinery conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris. via Scientific America

Thoughts on Microsoft providing healthcare insights via social media?