February, 2008

Wireless Technology in Health Care

Dr. William Bria of the University of Michigan and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Shriners Hospitals for Children discusses how wireless technology may help the ailing American healthcare system. Read how Dr. John Halamka addresses the information needs of 3,000 doctors, 12,000 employees and one million patients in his role as CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess...

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BlackBerry Maintaining Compliance with HIPAA

JJT Consulting Group holds a third-party relationship with Research In Motion (RIM) and was contracted to research and develop a white paper evaluating RIM’s BlackBerry® solution in terms of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Review the document to find out...

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Drug Information at the Point of Care

The BlackBerry device can be used to access drug information at the point of care. Have a look at offerings from Epocrates, with a cost-free option, PEPID’s Portable Drug Companion, Lexi-Comp’s comprehensive drug database, and USBMIS’s Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia and Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial...

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