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Advantage Home Telehealth (ADHT) announced today that it has established an Affiliate Program to rapidly expand the deployment of the company's state-of-the-art mobile telehealth program. The Affiliate Program is open to insurance companies, physician groups, hospitals, clinics, visiting nurse associations, and other health care providers interested in improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of their service to chronically ill, in-home patients. The ADHT system employs cutting edge wireless (non-tethered) and automated equipment for vital sign measurement, medication compliance, and general health condition data collection coupled with an around-the-clock clinical monitoring service. By simplifying the approach to home health care while expanding the ease with which information can be gathered, relayed, assessed, and communicated to health care professionals, the ADHT system gives patients greater confidence in the quality of their health care and positively reinforces their positive behaviors. ADHT's experience with patients around the United States has shown that dramatic reductions in unscheduled hospital, emergency room, and doctors office visits is achieved -- saving everyone time and money.

Welch Allyn, a leading global provider of medical diagnostic devices headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, NY, unveiled its newest generation of connected solutions designed to address the needs of busy medical practices today at the 2011 Medica International Trade Fair and Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany. Designed to swiftly gather accurate patient data and transmit it to an electronic medical record (EMR), the new platform-based Welch Allyn Connex® Integrated Wall System (IWS), Welch Allyn Connex® Electronic Vitals Documentation (EVD) System and Welch Allyn Connex® ProBP™ 3400 digital blood pressure device will be on display in hall 9, booth E15. The company will also showcase ergonomic and security enhancements made to the Braun ThermoScan® PRO 4000 ear thermometer.

A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records have issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between providers, health information exchanges and other data-sharing partners.

Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) announced Friday it has connected its HIE with the cloud-based electronic health record from athenahealth.

Welch Allyn, a leading global provider of medical diagnostic devices headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, NY, will showcase its newest generation of connected solutions designed to address the needs of busy medical practices next month at the 2011 Medica International Trade Fair and Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany. Designed to swiftly gather accurate patient data and transmit it to an electronic medical record (EMR), the new platform-based devices will be on display in hall 9, booth E15.

IBM announced Monday that it will donate a portion of its Blue Spruce Project code to the Dojo Foundation's Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb), helping enable health IT advancements on several fronts.

As score-keeping begins for new Medicare penalties for hospitals with excessive numbers of patients returning shortly after they're discharged, a new Dartmouth Atlas Project report shows little progress over a five-year period in reducing these hospital readmissions and improving care coordination for Medicare patients. In fact, the statistics show that readmissions for some conditions are on the rise.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced up to $13.2 million in new grants to support the expansion of health information technology in settings that serve people with mental and substance use disorders.

Welch Allyn, a leading global provider of medical diagnostic devices headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, NY, will showcase its newest generation of connected solutions designed to address the needs of busy medical practices today at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) AsiaPac Conference and Leadership Summit in Melbourne, Australia. Designed to swiftly gather accurate patient data and transmit it to an electronic medical record (EMR), the new platform-based Welch Allyn Connex® Integrated Wall System (IWS) and Welch Allyn Connex® Electronic Vitals Documentation (EVD) System will be on display at booth 410.