Tim Wilson
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 11/10/2013
Wireless makes the grade in healthcare environments
From a communications perspective, healthcare environments are more dynamic than most. By that I mean that the type of communication, its urgency, the number of people participating, and the distances involved can fluctuate dramatically. - 10/24/2013
Obamacare’s Canadian connection
By now most casual observers of the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act in the United States have heard that the launch of the Act’s website on October 1 has been widely described as a train wreck. But it took three weeks before the Canadian press latched on to the fact that the lead technology contractor for Healthcare.gov was a subsidiary of Canada’s largest IT company. - 10/14/2013
Healthcare technology’s growing pains
I must open with a caveat: I have no money in the stock market and I'm in no way qualified to assess or offer advice on stock valuations. What I have observed, however, is that with all the talk of the promise of technology in healthcare, investing in this area is by no means a slam dunk. - 9/16/2013
Closing healthcare’s expanding data loop
Getting a health information exchange (HIE) right means ensuring the clinical messaging is secure, and that it works within cross-enterprise environments. For most healthcare managers, that means making sure their health information systems can co-ordinate lab results as well as clinical and discharge summaries. - 9/2/2013
Taking the pain out of the healthcare supply chain
The supply chain for advanced surgical technologies and products – most notably implantable devices – is complex, involving numerous and substantial fixed costs. Administrators and healthcare managers are at the end of this purchase line, and have to foot the bill. Fortunately, there is room to find savings. - 8/18/2013
Innovation is much more than an idea
The recent news that a Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) team had won the Innovation Award of Excellence from the International Consortium for Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC) is proof that, while innovation is hard to predict, there are certain conditions that can allow it to flourish. This is as true in healthcare environments as anywhere else. - 8/5/2013
Canada Health Infoway’s identity crisis
Canada Health Infoway was formed in 2001. Its purpose was to accelerate the adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in healthcare. This mandate was made all the more relevant as the Internet became the dominant ICT platform and promised to transform healthcare delivery the world over. - 7/21/2013
How a physiotherapy clinic uses the cloud, mobile computing to ease administrative pains
Go! Physiotherapy, an orthopedic physiotherapy clinic in Vancouver, has turned to mobility and the cloud to get big results. Their story is interesting as it represents how an ongoing interest in new technologies can result in a hybrid solution that covers all the bases. Central to the clinic’s success are two distinct cloud-based solutions: one for scheduling, and the other for more advanced EMR functionality. - 7/7/2013
When losing a USB stick with patient data is no big deal
News reports of breaches in private healthcare information are a common occurrence these days. Usually technology is front and centre in the discussion, but there are two distinct types of breaches: one, where human error results in access via information technology, and two, where the technology itself is the problem. - 6/24/2013
Big Data can lighten the load on hospitals
Anyone who has been keeping abreast of technology trends will have heard of Big Data, and how it’s about to transform society. Soon every imaginable device will be part of the “Internet of Things” and able to collect and share data. Those organizations that can convert the raw numbers into actionable information will have an edge.
