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BOSTON – The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, has received funding from the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund to develop a home-based glucose monitoring system for patients with diabetes.
The amount of the funding was not disclosed.
Boston-based Partners HealthCare is an integrated health system that includes Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital as well as community hospitals, health centers and a physician network.
This new initiative, Diabetes Connected Health, will use available online technology to improve diabetes management and treatment outcomes. The center will create a secure Web-based system to integrate home-based glucose monitoring results within the clinical workflow of diabetes care.
Patients from six Massachusetts General Hospital practices will use commercially available glucometers and blood pressure devices to transmit personal health data, via HealthVault, into the Partners HealthCare secure clinical systems and proprietary diabetes management application.
The system will enable patients to access personalized health information and communicate with their healthcare provider.
