Healthcare providers need great tools that facilitate their work and empower them. IT teams need to stay ahead of risk to their organizations; this includes all forms of system resilience, especially security risk. Leadership needs cost-effective solutions and reliable systems. To this end, healthcare IT departments have oversight of all software used in their institutions. They are charged ...

Meaningful positive changes in medical technology require input from the people who use it. With a full clinical schedule, it’s hard for healthcare providers to find the time, and this leads to a medical technology bottleneck.

A health care practitioner's time is valuable, arguably best spent providing care. They might get to vent about a software problem around the lunch table with ...

Conferences are a great way to get a feel for what technology is doing for healthcare. Although you are probably not going to see every HealthTech company in one conference, a wide array of sizes and approaches are represented. When you spend a few days in a convention center, you get to know one another.

The large, established companies pay for the high-visibility, front-and-center or ...

What do you get for all this trouble?

It's hard to quantify but worth looking at.

Better processes and better tools make for a more attractive and sustainable work environment. This is beneficial if you are trying to attract and retain staff. Isn't everyone?

There is reason to think that better processes and better tools lead to better outcomes. Primarily because they just work ...

There's an undercurrent I hear, saying things that sound to me like: we can do better, we can improve the quality and usefulness. How do we work with what is available and make positive change? For now I just keep thinking there's got to be a better way and try to learn more about what's going on and why.