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Health IT Chiefs: Our Next IT Rock Stars?
As IT managers gradually connect medical devices to electronic health records (EHRs), the role, influence and responsibilities of chief medical informatics officers (CMIOs) and chief nursing officers (CNOs) will continue to grow "to a level not seen before," predicts a study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Among the medical devices that will likely require such integration, according to researchers, are fetal monitors, cardiac output monitors, ventilators, IV pumps, anesthesia machines, balloon pumps, and even smart beds.
Read article at Information Week - Healthcare.....
Online Holistic Wellness Health Study Shows that Cognitive Status, Physical Health and Daily Functioning are Interrelated
 NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2011 -- PRNewswire -- A recent study "A Holistic Approach to Assess Older Adults' Wellness Using e-Health Technologies", conducted at the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine, at the University of Washington, by Dr. Hilaire Thomson and Dr. George Dimiris, and published this month in TELEMEDICINE and e-HEALTH shows that holistic wellness (cognitive, physiological, spiritual and social) can be assessed successfully in older adults using informatics applications in a sample of community-dwelling elders.
The study also reveals an association between cognitive function and physiological health as well as between cognitive abilities and activities of daily living, thus making a stronger claim for an integrated approach to the assessment of wellness and brain fitness, CogniFit reports.
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Hot Skills for 2012
IT salaries are projected to rise by 4.5 percent in 2012, according to Robert Half International, though they've been largely flat this year by Janco Associates' figures. But Robert Half foresees bigger raises in what it calls "seven high-potential jobs."
The positions on the list are hardly a surprise. As John Reed, Robert Half executive director put it:
"A common feature of high-demand jobs is a large degree of specialization. Professionals with the best prospects have finely tuned abilities that enable their companies to take advantage of new technology and the increasing amount of information available to them."
- Read more at
IT Business Edge....
Mobile point-of-care spending to hit $4.4B by 2015
By 2015, clinical mobility should represent about 10 percent of the worldwide health IT market.
 Healthcare providers in the U.S. will spend more than $4.4 billion on mobile point-of-care technology in 2015, up from almost $2.8 billion in 2010, representing an annual growth rate of 9.9 percent, according to a new forecast from Intel and research firm IDC Health Insights. The market will expand slightly more rapidly in other Western countries. Counting North America and Europe, spending will increase by 10.5 percent a year, from $4.4 billion last year to $7.2 billion in 2015, including hardware, software and IT services.
- Read more at mobihealthnews....
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Nils J. Nilsson, Kumagai Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1958. He spent twenty-three years at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International working on statistical and neural-network approaches to pattern recognition, co-inventing the A* heuristic search algorithm and the STRIPS automatic planning system, directing work on the integrated mobile robot, SHAKEY, and collaborating in the development of the PROSPECTOR expert system. He has published five textbooks on artificial intelligence.
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