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As a physician, technology geek and mother, I find it perplexing that one area of healthcare that has not yet been penetrated by electronic devices is hand hygiene.
Continuum would bring its strong primary care and emergency medicine programs into the mix, and NYU could contribute its standing as an academic institution and its specialty physicians and technology.
For emergency room physicians, each technology provides a set of advantages and limitations.
At my request, a newer version of the Slate, HealthCube, was tested last month by nine teams of physicians and technology, operations, and marketing experts at Peru's leading hospital, Clinica Internacional.
The teams are given the task of identifying an unmet clinical need, as well as access to many resources including: university physicians mentors, technology development funds, the Lassonde Entrepreneurship Institute, and the Center for Medical Innovation intellectual property and new venture law fellows.
Only with greater acceptance by physicians, new technology can play a significant role in advancing health care delivery.
These interviews provided insights into issues such as how training is currently carried out and how senior physicians use technology during patient care.
Editor's Note: Iltifat Husain is the founder and Editor-in-chief of iMedicalApps.com, a physician-operated technology review publication and is currently an Emergency Medicine resident physician at Wake Forest University's School of Medicine.
These results suggest that the technological frames of physicians contrast the technology developer's intentions in using the tool for risk assessment and encouraging preventive behaviours in patients.
The range of options will vary based on the clinical setting, extant workflows, the end user (nurse or physician), available technologies, and the availability of input data.
