Hospital communication has undergone a major revolution in the past few years. From deskbound phones to pagers to smartphones. For many years, it looked..
5 years after their initial 2011 opinion that the texting of orders had no place in hospitals or healthcare, the Joint Commission issued a revised ruling..
Thanks to initiatives like Meaningful Use and the rise of digital solutions catering to clinicians, healthcare providers now have access to unprecedented..
Another day, another study confirming what SOME of us have known all along—by utilizing mobile communication applications (such as secure texting) in lieu..
‘Patient-centric’ approaches, despite approaching meaningless buzzword status in healthcare, have been proven to yield positive results. Traditionally,..
In the beginning, there was the hospital: an institution which grew from a need to provide medicine and care and promote health and wellness to the..
Finally, the era of modern web services has arrived to healthcare—and the next step is a doozy. If you haven’t heard much about FHIR (Fast Healthcare..
A number of thought-provoking articles lately have observed the (relatively) sluggish adoption rates that secure messaging solutions face in healthcare,..
The popularity and proliferation of health information technology (HIT) has led to the following quandary: how do we keep all that vital, personal..
With an announcement of increased HIPAA audits on the horizon in 2016, and some already record-setting fines levelled for 2015 violations, healthcare..
While the innovation of secure text messaging has been a welcome development in the world of clinical communications, mass adoption still remains..
Hennepin County Medical Center needed a change. As Minnesota's premier Level-1 trauma center, processing more than 21,000 discharges annually, as well as..