By Paul Dow, MS, RT(R)(CT) Personal mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers are becoming more popular among clinicians as they look for ways to improve their daily delivery of healthcare. These devices have increasingly powerful processors and larger hard drive capacities which can be an asset when interacting with large image data
Planning for the Eventual: Keeping medical information secure in the handheld world
Catching It on the Bounce: Stanford Hospital responds to online posting of patient data
By Paul Dow, BS, RT(R)(CT) The exposure of protected health information is always a cause for concern. There are varying degrees of exposure, and there are varying degrees of response. What separates the quality of the response from good to bad is the level of accountability and responsibility an organization takes for the loss of
Google announces the end of Google Health
By Paul Dow, BS, RT(R)(CT) The Good and Bad of the Situation Google has announced in their official blog that their Personal Health Record (PHR) experiment is coming to an end on January 1, 2013. If you have data entered on their site there will be enough time to safely export the data to another
Fearing a professional rut?
By Paul Dow, BS, RT(R)(CT) These days many people are planning their career paths out of fear. It is almost unavoidable with the constant reporting of economic upheaval and uncertainty. With that fear, people are looking for job security and healthcare is proving to be an attractive field for people who have been forced out