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7 Totally Unoriginal And Obvious Ways To Improve Your Programs By Gretel Going

JAM — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:20:41 +0000

Healthcare marketers are a paradox in that they have the luxury of being able to speak directly to their audience’s favorite topic—themselves—yet tend to fail miserably at it. From where I sit, healthcare marketers are in a both challenging and exciting position. Challenging because the legal hoops they have to jump through can be rigorous …

Rural Latinos Still Waiting for Quality High-Speed Access by Jose A. Marquez-Leon

JAM — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:14:08 +0000

Rural Latinos Still Waiting for Quality High-Speed Access Last year, I wrote about the struggles of the 4.2 million Latinos living in rural areas to connect to high-speed Internet networks. It’s no secret that the FCC found the majority of 10 million households that don’t have access are in rural areas, and the U.S. Department …

After Hispanicise 2012… Latinos Will Definately Need More Spectrum…by Jose Marquez.

JAM — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:47:46 +0000

Last week, I had the pleasure to be at the Hispanicize 2012 Conference in Miami, Florida. It was one of the most engaging conferences that I attended in over 4 yrs. Bloggers and twitter experts from across the nation came together to discuss best practices and develop strategies for more wireless apps for Latinos, i.e. …

Verizon donates $100k to Philadelphia hospital for telemedicine By Mike Miliard, HealthcareIT News

JAM — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:43:58 +0000

PHILADELPHIA – The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has announced it will launch a telemedicine pilot program, dedicated to providing pediatric specialty consultations to community hospitals, with help from a $100,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. The pilot program is designed to test the applicability of consultation services in the community hospital setting for intensive care …

From Harvard to Homeless by Chris Allsop

JAM — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:08:50 +0000

Cigna’s chief diversity officer, Rosanna Durruthy, shares her unusual climb to the top by Chris Allsop For diversity professional Rosanna Durruthy, her career (and current position as chief diversity officer with health insurer Cigna) is a classic example of genes working in tandem with environmental forces. Of Cuban and Puerto Rican heritage, Durruthy, from an …

Six Sprint LTE Markets Running by Mid-Year As Sprint Says Goodbye to WiMax Devices by Karl Bode

JAM — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:10:47 +0000

Last October Sprint officially announced their plans to upgrade to LTE, noting they hoped to cover 123 million “pops” (potential users) with LTE by the end of 2012, and 250 million by the end of 2013. Speaking at the Rural Cellular Association meeting this week in Orlando, Sprint’s network VP Bob Azzi stated they’ve got …

Doctors Need Spectrum… STAT!

JAM — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:22:34 +0000

LISTA, HTTP and our members often discuss the transformative potential of technology. We promote technology, innovation and broadband connectivity because it empowers communities, reveals new possibilities, and changes lives. But technology can also improve health, quality of care – and save lives while saving the health care system dollars. Health IT has had a dramatic …

Will mHealth Revolutionize Healthcare? by Jose Marquez

JAM — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:44:42 +0000

As it appeared in the Huffington Post. You almost certainly have a cell phone (83 percent of Hispanics do, according to a recent study), and it’s probably a smartphone with capabilities far beyond talking and texting. Perhaps you use it for social networking, checking the weather or sports, or games. But have you thought about …

Access to Health IT Critical to Medical Advancement in Latino Communities

JAM — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:41:46 +0000

Medical and Technology Professionals explore topic at LISTA LatinoHIT’s EHRInsight’s 2015 Kickoff in Washington, D.C. Over 75 distinguished medical and technology professionals gathered at the EHRInsight 2015 seminar series in Washington, D.C. to discuss the expansion of Electronic Health Records (EHR), telemedicine, mobile health, and health information technologies in the Latino community. The two day event, hosted …

Meet Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Chief Medical Information Officer, AT&T February 29th in Washington DC

JAM — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:50:34 +0000

LISTA’s National Latino Alliance for Health Information Technology respectfully requests your attendance for our EHRInsights2015 Workshop taking place in Washington DC. This event will take place on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 8:30 am – 3:00 pm at. The Office of Mayor Vincent C. Gray at 2000 14th Street NW 2nd floor, Washington DC 20009 As …