When your smart thermostat fails, your home may get a little overheated. The breach of a security camera might result in a break in or a stolen package off the front porch. But failure of an Internet-connected heart monitor or the hacking of a device configured to remind an elderly patient to take their hypertension…
In the last 40 years, fictional projections of the future of healthcare have ranged from unimaginable technological advances to downright barbaric solutions (and at times a combination of both). We’re still light years away from anything as advanced as a tricorder a la Star Trek but we’re ankle deep in the science of mind controlled…
Tele-what? Telemedicine, telehealth—what do they actually refer to, and which one should you use? Both terms describe the remote delivery of healthcare services using telecommunications technology. Often used interchangeably, telemedicine tends to mean the delivery of remote care between provider and patient, whereas telehealth is a bit broader, encompassing a variety of digital technologies and methods for…
You learn a lot by watching. Nectar’s Director of Client Services, Teresa DeLappe, did a lot of observing and learning during the 15 years she spent working across the healthcare continuum at Harborview Medical Center (HMC) in Seattle, Washington. She was fascinated by the growing technology dependence of healthcare organizations yet at the same time,…
Why is it that the words “digital transformation” and “failure” are so often tied together in the same sentence? Why did McKinsey come out with a report that said 70% of digital transformation projects are bound to fail? A recent Forbes article put the number at 84%. Digital transformation can be an exhausting, seemingly never-ending…
In a post-COVID world, IT executives are no longer worker bees, they’re driving the organization’s financial future Another noteworthy consideration is that while most corporations prefer executives to have an MBA or similar degree, it’s not unheard of for a company to put a promising leader who doesn’t have an MBA on the track to…
The good and beleaguered folks from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) threw their annual party in Las Vegas with less than half of the usual pre-COVID crowd in attendance. But while the crowds were small and many of the major vendors were absent from the exhibition floor, HIMSS put the spotlight on…
Las Vegas is set to roll out the silicon carpet for HIMSS21, the healthcare technology party of the year. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has selected “Be The Change” as the theme for this year’s conference. We asked our Pixel Health team going to HIMSS 2021 to expand on what this year’s conference,…
It’s a given in this day and age that technology is the root of a lot of how Healthcare gets done. You’ll often hear doctors say “we are run by the IT department.” In many instances, that’s true. So why are the IT experts the last people invited to the party when evaluating a…
You can tell a lot about a company by the way they describe themselves. And when it comes to Value Added Resellers (VARs) of hardware and software, those descriptions separate the winners from the widget salesmen. We conducted a highly unscientific survey of VARs large and small and almost without exception, the structure of…
