Healthcare

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The Internet of Everything is altering not only our personal lives, but also business practices across every major industry – healthcare included. From telehealth to increasing caregiver efficiency to data sharing, the IoE enables opportunities for improvement. But with these new connections and advances in healthcare technology, many physicians and healthcare professionals are skeptical of […]

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Florida Blue will serve as the anchor tenant for a new Lake Nona, Fla.-based healthcare innovation center slated to launch in 2015. As Lake Nona in Orlando, Fla., continues to serve as a model medical city for smarter technologies, it will soon become the location for a new innovation center. The Lake Nona Innovation Center, […]

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General’s report on the health hazards of smoking. While we are encouraged by the significant progress we have made in reducing the percentage of smokers from 43% to 18% in the past 50 years, the cost impact of smoking continues to ride high. According to […]

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We are looking forward to participating in the HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition from February 24-26 in Orlando, FL.  If you are planning to attend HIMSS14, be sure to visit the Cisco booth (#1453) to discover solutions for mobility, collaboration, telehealth, and patient engagement designed to help your organization deliver safe and affordable care.  Highlights […]

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Want to earn 3.25 continuing education (CE) hours while learning first-hand about successful patient engagement strategies?  Attend the 7th Annual Community for Connected Health Summit on February 25 during the HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition and earn 3.25 CE units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of CPHIMS or CAHIMS. Customers from healthcare organizations […]

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Cisco’s new Extended Care Solution enables patient engagement and care team collaboration at any time and from anywhere including home, office and other remote locations.  Cisco Extended Care is a new browser-based health and wellness collaboration solution platform that features ad hoc and scheduled video consults, secure messaging, customizable pre-appointment questionnaires, a video library platform and […]

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On February 25, Cisco will sponsor the 7th Annual Community for Connected Health Summit during the HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition. This year’s agenda promises to be the best one ever! Customers from healthcare organizations can attend the Summit at no additional cost by registering for the HIMSS14 Annual Conference at the same time and […]

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Barbara Casey, Senior Executive Director for Healthcare Business Transformation at Cisco, recently wrote about challenges that patients face when navigating the continuum of care in our currently disconnected care settings.  In an effort to assist patients, technology companies are beginning to shift their focus to take advantage of network technology to personalize the patient experience. […]

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Every year for the last seven years, Cisco and its Santa Connection program have brought video collaboration technologies to hospitals across North America for child patients to virtually connect with Santa Claus in the North Pole. The children get the opportunity to ask Santa what they want for Christmas either by video chatting on iPads […]