A team of researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a Google Glass application and a server platform that allow users of the wearable, glasses-like computer to perform instant, wireless diagnostic testing for a variety of diseases and health conditions.

ORLANDO--“This coming year, we’ll spend more on healthcare than on everything else we buy combined,” said Ed Park, executive vice president and COO of athenahealth, during a talk at the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference. Park discussed the customer-centric success of Amazon and what healthcare can learn from the online giant.

More than one-third (37 percent) of physicians have prescribed an app to their patients but 42 percent say they will not citing the lack of regulatory oversight, according to polling results from QuantiaMD, a social learning network for physicians.

The greatest benefit of utilizing integrated mobile technologies is increased access to patient information and the ability to view data from a remote location, according to a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics survey of 170 healthcare IT and clinical personnel that was released at the HIMSS annual conference in Orlando, Fla.

A survey conducted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) finds that people who don’t trust security measures for EHRs are much less likely to support electronic health information exchange (HIE), a key goal of the ONC.

ORLANDO--The Connected Patient Learning Gallery, a new element in the exhibit hall this year, is the result of requests from HIMSS members who asked for one place to showcase innovative health IT products and services that address various aspects of electronically engaging providers and patients as well as ways to integrate these products for patient care.

David W. Bates, MD, MSc, shares his extensive research on how CDS can better aid patient safety efforts.

ORLANDO--The decision to embark on an innovation program should stem from a vision, not from the desire to use a particular tool or technology, said speakers at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference.