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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Integrated Research Network, a collaborative research community slated to launch this summer, will allow physicians to weigh in on comparative effectiveness research.
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.
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.
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.
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.
