Virtuate

After a long… very long hiatus this corner of the web will undergo a few changes in the next few days/weeks. If you happen to drop by looking for old healthcare and technology content you may not find it as it will start to disappear and this website will become my corporate identity.
Even this [...]

Thanks for dropping by.
You may be wondering where I went and why content on this page has been thin and infrequent.
There are several reasons for this.
When I started this site I did so with high hopes of building a place to read about healthcare technology.  At the same time, however I also started the Mobile [...]

John Halamka (profile on his blog here) has a piece over at the Health Care Blog on the fundamentals of healthcare IT.  He calls it A Healthcare IT Primer and presents in 10 common questions and answers.   I have listed the questions below… but for the answers you must go to the original post here.

Can [...]

The Wall Street Journal has a story on how large managed care groups, such as Kaiser Permanente and Group Health Cooperative, are turning more and more to electronic health record systems to encourage patients to become more involved in their own care.
The trend, known as information therapy, involves delivering reliable health information directly [...]

I just found a great resource over at the Medical Student Blog that will come in handy for all you Social Media enthusiasts who also happen to be into healthcare.  It is a list of Doctors, Medical Students and Medicine related tweets and blogs/websites.  Of course we added ourselves and pending approval we should be [...]

There are a lot of terms out there and controversy on those terms.  But what does it all mean to you … to me?
I notice a need for my own sake and sanity to try and understand the different terms and what they mean to me as a consumer of health services (i.e. patient).
Starting my [...]

From the American Medical News:
Physicians increasingly are discovering smartphones serve a purpose beyond being a convenient communication gadget.
It is good to hear.  As you know we are big proponents of the use of mobile technology for everything  … so it is always good to read research that supports our crazy ideas.   Some of the highlights:
Physicians [...]

One day we hope to make it on this list of the Top 50 Health 2.0 Blogs over at Acumeme.   However a few things need to happen first:

Need to become smarter.
Need more time.

Because neither of the above seems a possibility in the near future maybe we can just get some contributors…

As stated on our sister site before, healthcare represents an enormous opportunity for mobility. Healthcare workers (on and off campus) are extremely mobile and the returns are also enormous: from chronic disease management, to critical care, to home health care, to eprescribing to electronic medical records the variety of uses for mobile technology in [...]

Over the last few days activity seems to have picked up here at Virtuate and just today we have had 30 visitors to the site.  We realize 30 visitors is nothing to write home about, however we have done little to no promotion or linking to date so we are relatively happy with 30 visits [...]