Tag Archives: health IT

Day Two of Innovation at DHCX

By Sarah | February 21, 2012

Before we give our highlights from Day Two of the Digital Health Communication Extravaganza, let’s add our voice to the chorus of attendees who were provoked by Sekou Andrews’ performative speech that closed Day One! Deeply touching (and amusing!), it was a superb example of using storytelling to talk about complex problems and solutions — [...]

Extreme Digital Health Communication: CommunicateHealth Reports From DHCX

By Sarah | February 18, 2012

At CommunicateHealth, we believe that digital health communication is an important piece of the health communication puzzle. So we’re excited to bring you a few highlights from sessions at the Digital Health Communication Extravaganza, where we’ve been soaking up some of the very latest innovations on the topic. It’s only Day One, and we’ve already [...]

Data vs. Doctors

By Perrie Briskin | January 13, 2012

This week in TechCrunch, Silicon Valley mogul and Sun Micosystems founder Vinod Khosla wrote “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?,” a compelling piece about healthcare and data. More specifically, as our ability to collect and analyze data improves with technology, can algorithms, or as he calls it, “Dr. A,” replace doctors? Having computers armed with data taking [...]

Doctor vs. Computer

By Amy | January 19, 2011

Dr. Danille Ofri writes about her experience using electronic medical records for the New York Times. After reading her story, we couldn’t help but think how the small investments in user-centered design research would have big payoffs in healthcare quality, and would improve the experience of both patients and providers. For more on consumer health [...]