The future of healthcare: Information technology

Mobile digital devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, have had a rapid and profound impact on our daily lives, affecting how we read, shop, play games, search for information, think and behave. This transformation was predicated on a mature Internet with highly developed wir ...

Master Data Management in Healthcare: 3 Approaches

IT leaders considering Master Data Management (MDM) for their healthcare organization already know the importance of having a solid MDM approach. But that doesn’t make the task any less daunting. Their questions for us include “What is the right MDM strategy for my organization?” Or, ...

Care Management and the Future of Health Care

Health care is on the everyone’s mind in the United States. That preoccupation is fueled in part by the controversy surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which promises to ensure coverage for 32 million Americans currently without health insurance. But the conversat ...

Healthcare Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges

The prognosis for successful healthcare information systems (HIS) implementation is really great. It is expected to increase legibility, reduce medical errors, shrink costs and boost the quality of healthcare (Jha et al., 2010; Blumenthal & Tavenner, 2010). Healthcare information techn ...