Dear Healthcare IT Insider,
Social networks have transformed the way people communicate in today's society. And social media could produce similar changes in the way healthcare professionals interact with each other, according to a team from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Making use of a variety of social media technology features, their internally developed software, called Unite, seeks to connect everyone who participates in the care of a specific patient. How are they doing that? Access our coverage of Unite in this month's Healthcare IT Insider Exclusive, which you have access to before our regular members.
If you've wondered how the concept of "big data" can apply to medical imaging, you might be interested in a column from Hjalmer Danielson of Ascendian Healthcare Consulting. Danielson shares his thoughts on the topic here.
In other articles this month in your Healthcare IT Digital Community, speech recognition software was found to improve report turnaround time 24-fold in a community practice. Click here to get the details.
Data integrity failures in electronic health records and other health IT systems were recently listed in the ECRI Institute's annual top 10 list of technology hazards.
Also, emergency physicians would like imaging decision-support software to help tackle overuse of CT, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine recently found.
Learn about two approaches to integrating imaging informatics in a health system by reading about the experiences of the Yale New Haven Health System and the North Shore - LIJ Health System.
Do you have an idea for a healthcare IT topic you'd like to see covered? Please feel free to drop me a line.
