Spotlight
October 15, 2019Technology in Healthcare: Differing Points of View
I arrive to your Unit full of fear and apprehension. Your face is friendly though, and your smile sincere, so I will try to let you help me (I hope you can help me).
I sit on the neatly made bed in this unwelcoming room you are already calling “mine.” Nothing human here. Not even the blanket looks warm.
I try to relax, but there is nothing here to comfort me. I cannot understand what these buttons and switches do. I am afraid to touch things I do not understand, so I sit in the dark...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Kaveh Safavi, Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Health Practice, Accenture
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News
How Zantac went from world's best-selling drug to being pulled from store shelves
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Canada’s big banks are fighting to win doctors’ trust – and their money
2019-10-21 from theglobeandmail.com Just days after Bank of Nova Scotia unveiled its hefty $2.6-billion bid to buy MD Financial Management last May, Leo Salom called together what he calls his &ldquo [...]
Editor's Picks
Big data using data science methods (data analytics) has the potential to effectively inform strategies to address complex healthcare challenges. However, this potential can only be realized if healthcare professionals have the requisite depth and breadth of knowledge (i.e., informatics competencies). With the emergence of electronic health records (EHRs – commonly known as clinical information systems [CISs]) in healthcare organizations, data analytics that can "interrogate" CIS [...]
