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Predictions for Blockchain in Healthcare over the next 12 to 24 months

Lloyd Price

Blockchain is one of the hottest topics in health IT right now, and on this latest Healthcare Informatics podcast, Jonathan Gordon, a partner in Alston & Bird’s technology and privacy group, dives into the opportunities and roadblocks surrounding this emerging technology.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods to utilize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and medicine. Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians.

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Meet the modern healthcare CIO: A business leader that is casting off their traditional IT role

David Chou

"The CIO broadly communicates, convenes governance groups and supports innovation." healthcare. "In But with electronic health records nearly ubiquitous, the next charges are connectivity, interoperability, optimization and innovating on top of the digitized platform to further strategic goals. "We're