Mike Miliard

For a healthcare industry living in mortal fear of data breaches and HIPAA violations, the word “hacker” would seem to be an anathema.

Deepak Aatresh co-founder of startup design/build firm Aditazz, came originally from the semiconductor industry, but since founding the company, he's been thinking a lot about architecture and construction.

This past fall, as the academic year got under way, medical schools across the country, from Brown to Stanford, were tossing out heavy and expensive textbooks in favor of fully-loaded and interactive iPads. Now that spring is here, it's time for the iPad to graduate: moving out of the classroom and into the clinical setting.

We're living in an iOS world nowadays, but sometimes, to look at them, it seems EHRs are stuck in a Windows '97 rut.

The National Quality Forum (NQF) approved for endorsement several sets of quality measures in April, addressing areas such as perinatal and renal care and how resources are put to use in care delivery.

Everyone in healthcare uses smartphones nowadays, but no one's quite sure what to do about them.

"One of the simulators is leaking." So reported an alarmed custodian at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center, upon finding a supine and sheet-covered mannequin dripping fluid onto the floor.

Postponing ICD-10, whenever the new compliance date might end up being, would do little to improve readiness – but could have significant adverse effects and substantial costs, said a majority of respondents to a survey from Edifecs, which develops technologies for regulatory compliance and data exchange.

When one is a writer for a trade publication, one's e-mail inbox is peppered almost daily with press releases touting this or that study, significant for these or those findings, about this or that corner of the industry.

Everybody's talking about accountable care nowadays. But providers aren't the only ones who need to be held accountable as we push off into the uncharted waters of care coordination and payment reform. The folks on the other side of that storied and sacred doctor/patient relationship have important responsibilities too.