Ireland’s premier healthcare informatics event will take place on 17th/18th November 2010 in the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin. Recognised for providing a significant contribution to the development and understanding of information and its associated technologies in the delivery of healthcare, the conference is the focal point for those interested in Healthcare Informatics in ...
Healthcare accounts for just three percent of data breaches in the United States. So reveals a new report on cybercrime by Verizon and the US Secret Service. The biggest targets, not surprisingly, were the financial services sector (33%), followed by the hospitality (23%) and retail sectors. Their vulnerability reflects their use of payment cards and ...
The Nursing Degree Network has put together an excellent list of the 50 Coolest Fitness and Health Apps for the Apple iPhone. The iPhone can help make it a little easier for caregivers and individuals to track and stay informed about a wide range of fitness and health topics. From nutrition databases to instructional fitness ...
Enabling Smarter Healthcare is the title of a two-minute video from IBM that highlights the many benefits of connecting electronic medical record systems with each other and with other healthcare software systems. Among the benefits are: a better patient experience, improved treatments, lower costs, and opportunity for scientists to use data in confidence for disease ...
Current tax revenues simply cannot afford to sustain healthcare spending levels, stated Prof. Gerard Lyons in an address to a special HISI conference held to recognise the Irish visit of the IMIA Board. Prof. Lyons argues that we must embrace a multitude of collaborative and interoperable systems and applications if we are to make progress ...