Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier

As president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, I lead a portfolio of new digital platform businesses focused on transforming health by leveraging artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and an ecosystem of partners for Mayo Clinic. This is made possible by an extraordinary team of people at Mayo and collaborators worldwide. This blog will document their story.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Bar Coding Medications

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I was recently asked how outpatient prescriptions and over the counter medications are bar coded and how inpatient medications should be bar...

Friday, June 27, 2008

Cool Technology Commentary - RFID Safety

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On Wednesday, JAMA published an article about the risks of active and passive RFID to other hospital equipment. The Associated Press and A...

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

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I live in Wellesley, Massachusetts where we recycle nearly 90% of our solid waste. How is this possible? Here's my personal story. ...

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Gift of Time

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Time is the one commodity you cannot buy and you cannot make more of. To me, this means that time is our most valuable resource. The rol...

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Electronic Health Records for Non-owned clinicians - Sharing data among providers

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At times, the business case for interoperability is not entirely clear. If data sharing reduces the volume of redundant lab tests, then t...

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Automating Inpatient Documentation

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This year's IS Retreat focused on Acute Care Documentation and transforming inpatient wards into paperless workflows in support of our ...

Friday, June 20, 2008

Cool Technology of the Week

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In the days of TDMA cell phones, BIDMC was an early innovator with in-building cellular communications. We worked with AT&T and Ericss...

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John Halamka: As president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, I lead a portfolio of new digital platform businesses focused on transforming health by leveraging artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and an ecosystem of partners for Mayo Clinic.

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