GE Healthcare CTO Says IT Needs to Embrace Mobile, Cloud to Remain Relevant

	Andrew Litt: Caution: Untested mHealth apps proliferate, but few good ones work well | Most people see tech innovation as the key to better health
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	INSIDER GE Healthcare CTO Says IT Needs to Embrace Mobile, Cloud to Remain Relevant GE Healthcare CTO Nevin Zimmermann talks with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant about mobile, cloud, big data and more. Zimmermann also discusses how his team is evolving and why CIOs must embrace technology changes. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: InterSystems Corporation Get active analytics for your ACO For ACOs, retrospective data analysis isn't good enough. Current data aggregated from across the continuum of care, with analysis and results tied directly to action, can drive better outcomes, and will be the difference between ACOs that thrive and those that do not. This is the active dimension of analytics. Read our white paper to learn how active analytics can benefit your organization. In this Issue Andrew Litt: Caution: Untested mHealth apps proliferate, but few good ones work well Most people see tech innovation as the key to better health Fixing Healthcare Requires Netflix-Like Disruption HealthCare.gov shows government incompetence, Republican critics say The top tech stories of 2013: Big Brother, wearables, and the struggles of aging tech giants WHITE PAPER: Comcast The Telemedicine Revolution: Patients Can't Wait Ethernet is gaining traction in health networks thanks to network simplicity, high bandwidth capacity, scalable service provisioning, and significant savings in capital investments. Comcast Ethernet permits vast quantities of data to move securely, accurately and quickly. View Now Andrew Litt: Caution: Untested mHealth apps proliferate, but few good ones work well Currently, the FDA does not regulate consumer medical apps, so, like the supplement industry, it’s a buyer-beware situation. Without rigorous clinical trials, there is no way to know which, if any, of these apps will actually improve health outcomes. Since few of these apps have been tested in clinical trials, their efficacy and safety are largely unknown. Read More Most people see tech innovation as the key to better health Most people believe tech innovation holds the best promise for curing fatal diseases and are confident they could administer their own tests, according to a new multinational survey. Read More Fixing Healthcare Requires Netflix-Like Disruption Healthcare is broken. No one disputes that. No one lacks perspective on how to fix it, either. The challenge, though, is disrupting a system that makes more money treating sickness than it does preventing it. Technology and innovation can play a part, but so can flipping the entire care model on its head. Read More HealthCare.gov shows government incompetence, Republican critics say A congressional hearing Wednesday on the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov was largely a forum for Republican critics of U.S. government involvement in the health-care industry and other large social programs. Read More The top tech stories of 2013: Big Brother, wearables, and the struggles of aging tech giants Politics collided with technology this year as stories about U.S. government spying stirred angst among U.S. citizens and foreign governments and the flawed HeathCare.gov site got American health-care reform off to a rocky start. Meanwhile, the post-PC era put aging tech giants under pressure to reinvent themselves. Read More
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