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NQF endorses measures to increase use of electronic health data

 Diana Manos February 03, 2010
The National Quality Forum has endorsed 70 measures designed to increase the use of electronic data platforms to measure, report and improve quality of healthcare.
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BIDMC data marts

 John Halamka, MD January 26, 2010
At BIDMC, our clinical systems are written in a hierarchical database called Cache - a very fast transactional system with great reliability and disaster recovery features.
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GE, Intel take patient monitoring across the Atlantic

 Bernie Monegain January 05, 2010
GE Healthcare and Intel have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to include the United Kingdom.
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Study finds parents will use mobile phones to manage a child's diabetes

 Bernie Monegain December 08, 2009
Parents of children with diabetes are most concerned about access to their child's healthcare provider and see mobile phones as a way to better manage their child's disease and connect with the doctor, according to a recent study.
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Geisinger focuses on quality measures for diabetes care

 Bernie Monegain December 07, 2009
A multi-disciplinary group at the Geisinger Health System has developed an IT-linked set of best practices to improve the quality of diabetes care and outcomes.
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German hospital rolls out digital pen for diabetes patients

 Kyle Hardy November 18, 2009
Bethesda Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany, is using digital pen technology to help diabetes patients manage the illness.
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IT aids chronic care program

 Kyle Hardy November 05, 2009
Using the Patient Centered Medical Home as its model, ProHealth Physicians, a Farmington, Conn.-based physician group, is leveraging information technology to improve care for patients with chronic diseases.
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Back to Basics: Toward a Core Set of Relevant and Portable Personal Health Information

 David Kibbe November 04, 2009
In the cacophony of health IT issues, products, and goals that compete every day for our attention, it is easy to lose sight of the profound value that could come from the universal availability of a simple core set of relevant and portable personal health information in digital format.
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HIMSS VCE Schedule

 Patty Enrado November 03, 2009
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HIMSS VCE: If you build it, be mindful of meaningful use

 Healthcare IT News Staff November 02, 2009
Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, there's been a lot of emphasis on electronic health record implementation.
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Diabetic patients report better care with use of Web-based PHRs

 Bernie Monegain October 27, 2009
Hundreds of diabetic patients in the Washington, D.C. area have adopted an online personal health record to communicate with their doctors and manage their disease, according to Howard University Hospital.
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Center for Connected Health chief urges participatory medicine

 Bernie Monegain October 22, 2009
Patient engagement is the secret to better health - and the Internet is making that easy, says Joseph Kvedar, MD.
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Study: EHRS improve care in community-based practices

Molly Merrill October 07, 2009
A new Rand study is one of the first to link the use of electronic health records in community-based medical practices with higher quality of care.
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Verizon to provide communications platform for JDRF

 Eric Wicklund September 16, 2009
Verizon Business is helping the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in its efforts to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes.
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Demo shows IT critical to improving care of patients with chronic diseases

 Kyle Hardy August 21, 2009
A five-year ongoing study involving 10 large physician practices across the country has so far shown improved quality of care for chronic disease patients from the use of health information technology.
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New research network to launch in summer

 Healthcare IT News Staff July 01, 2009
The Integrated Research Network, a collaborative research community slated to launch this summer, will allow physicians to weigh in on comparative effectiveness research.
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IBM-UNCHC partnership targets data analytics

 Eric Wicklund June 30, 2009
IBM is lending its considerable IT expertise to University of North Carolina Health Care to help speed the development of new treatments for diseases like diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer.
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Self-monitoring to boost European diabetes diagnostics market

Sam Collins June 25, 2009
The European diabetes diagnostics market is poised for expansion with segments such as self-monitoring and point-of-care (POC) tests offering tremendous growth potential.
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Doctors report on telehealth success in enhancing patient quality of life

Sam Collins June 22, 2009
Telehealth is enhancing the quality of life for patients and offers a cost-effective model of care for the management of long-term conditions, according to a panel of leading UK healthcare and local government professionals.
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New Jersey hospital to provide telehealth technology

Kyle Hardy June 18, 2009
Englewood Hospital Home Health and Hospice Services has agreed to a partnership in order to provide chronically ill patients with the option of telehealth services.
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