Tag Archives: healthIT
#HIMSS18 – What, Where and How HealthIT can impact healthcare
Blog post by Colin Hung. With the annual #HIMSS18 conference just a few weeks away, most of the industry’s attention is turning to matters relating to technology, cyber security and the regulations around HealthIT. We thought it would be fitting, therefore, to team up with the wonderful folks at @HIMSS for a tweetchat focused on […]
Technology for physical health, mental health & addictions care
Guest post by Sean Erreger @StuckonSW Mental health and addictions are becoming in the forefront of healthcare. Healthcare leaders are thinking about how they can better address mental health and addictions needs of those they serve. Opportunities such as co-location of mental health services in primary care are slowly changing the way mental health care. […]
EMR Usability and The Productivity Paradox of Healthcare
Blog post by Mitchell Josephson from KLAS What do a penny, an EMR system, and the “productivity paradox” have in common? Give up? It wasn’t more than two months ago that I found myself sitting in the ER at my local hospital, looking across the room at my wife as we both worried about our five-year-old […]
Time to Share
This week represents the ultimate sports-fanatic’s dream – all of the major North American sports leagues have games this week. October is the rare moment on the calendar when all are running at the same time: MLB Baseball has the World Series NFL Football is in week 7/8 NBA Basketball started their season last week […]
The Intersection of Tech & Medical Education
Blog by Andrew Richards This week on HCLDR we are excited to have special guest – Andrew Richards @andrewintech – College Technology Incubator Officer at Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University @WSUMedicine What should we be teaching our future docs about tech in their industry? As a technologist and entrepreneur, I […]
Expectations & Resolutions 2017
Blog post by Colin Hung Happy New Year! …and welcome to another fantastic year of #hcldr. Can you believe that it’s already 2017? Where did 2016 go? Since many people are still recovering from the holidays, I thought it would be nice to start the year with a bit of a “softer” #hcldr topic. So […]
Too Little or Too Much Health Technology?
Blog post by Colin Hung Our next #hcldr tweetchat – Tuesday June 7th – coincides with Canada’s eHealth conference in Vancouver (#eHealth2016). It is an annual gathering of HealthIT professionals, government policy makers, healthcare leaders and consultants. For the first time I’ll be attending #eHealth2016 as an attendee – no booth to man this time. […]
Weird Pairings – A Collaboration with #ILN15
Blog post by Colin Hung On Tuesday October 27th the Innovation Learning Network (ILN) is hosting a Twitter Party at their event (#ILN15) being held in in Toronto, Ontario. This party will feature a special #hcldr chat, hosted by yours truly, and will be an online extension of the #ILN15 theme: Weird Pairings and Engineered Random […]
#HCLDR at #HIMSS15 : Discussing Health IT and the impact on patients
Blog post by Colin Hung Today marks the start of the annual meeting of Healthcare….Society (aka #HIMSS15). This year over 45,000 people are expected to descend upon McCormick place in Chicago for 5 days of meetings, discussions, keynotes, shaking hands and selfies (#HIMSSelfie). I absolutely love the HIMSS conference. I always come back with a […]
#HIMSS15 Mix Tape
Blog by Colin Hung Every year I look forward to the HIMSS conference – the annual gathering of the HealthIT industry in North America. The year’s event is being held in Chicago from April 13-16 and it should attract a record number of attendees. I’ve had the good fortune of being able to attend HIMSS […]
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