eHealth White paper Library

Accessibility is becoming an increasingly important feature for hospital Web sites as health organizations develop their online initiatives. This white paper highlights the topic of Web accessibility and examines the physical impairments addressed by accessible sites, assistive technologies, benefits of having an accessible site, how to construct an accessible site, and legal implications of non-compliance.
Adobe Acrobat, 976kb

Blogs have increasingly become a popular part of the internet. In the healthcare industry, blogs help track a patient’s journey with chronic disease or procedures with lengthy recovery times, creating the ability for a patient to post their feelings and all the interactions that take place when facing certain decisions. The result is a patient’s-eye view into what would be required with the procedure, and what to expect, valuable to health consumers in similar situations as well as their friends, families and other members of their support system. This interaction can be the deciding factor for many patients as they face choices about the treatment options available.
Adobe Acrobat, 55kb

A majority of organizations do not develop a strategy for the Web. Instead, they get into a pattern of "plan this phase, do this phase, repeat as necessary." Pulling together a strategy takes time and effort. Is it worth it? Without a comprehensive, strategic framework that assesses business value, documents best practices and research, benchmarks a current state, and justifies an investment, the strength of your final product will be diluted. A good Web strategy is the cornerstone of great execution.
Adobe Acrobat, 10547kb

Online success is about balance: looking into the future and determining where you want to be in 3-5 years down the road, while matching that vision with shorter-term milestones for execution. It can be tough to get your arms around a long-term perspective in such a fast-moving medium as the Web. Without it, however, individual efforts pull in a myriad of different directions – resulting in much activity without any progress.
Adobe Acrobat, 11878kb

E-health professionals in hospitals and health systems operate in an environment of ongoing and gradual (but significant) change. The pressure to justify investments under increasing budgetary constraints requires them to demonstrate successes before and after they are made. Yet with these pressures come opportunities to demonstrate the value of their departments to the entire organization, securing the necessary resources to execute new initiatives much more easily.
Adobe Acrobat, 62kb

Building portals around specific service lines allows us to focus our efforts on high payback areas and to create a deeper, more effective solution for connecting with those key audiences. When selecting a service line for which to build a portal, we look for service line profitability (contribution margin), available capacity for growth, long-term patient engagement with the organization and, ideally, a high degree of patient choice, making such portals excellent additions to service lines such as cardiology, bariatric surgery, and executive health programs.
Adobe Acrobat, 27kb

A candid look at methodologies behind creating an online collaborative tool for healthcare boards and committees.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF), 2300kb

Andrea Olson, Director of Marketing at Geonetric and Elizabeth Scott, Director of eBusiness at Norton Healthcare collaborate with this in-depth, tactical study on rolling out an online quality report initiative.
Adobe Acrobat, 3166kb

Eric Engelmann, President and CEO of Geonetric, participates in this comprehensive, expert review of eHealth trends and technologies for 2006 and beyond.
Adobe Acrobat, 2925kb

Eric Engelmann, President & CEO of Geonetric, explores new trends and best practices in online physician directory tools.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF), 374 kb

A collaborative research project between Yale New-Haven Hospital and Geonetric exploring the effect of hospital Websites on patient decision-making.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF), 7021 kb

Ben Dillon, Vice President of Strategic Services at Geonetric, presents new ideas and best practices in the challenge of recruiting staff in the healthcare industry.
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT), 3936 kb

Published in the Spectrum Newsletter, this article explores the stages of intranet evolution in healthcare.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF), 48kb

A presentation outlining the growth of hospital intranets into the truly collaborative stage
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT), 4482 kb