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.
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.
Physician practices and health systems eyeing bonuses under the stimulus package should begin now by setting up health registries with their health IT vendor, according to Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
TOPEKA, KS - As the incidence of type 2 diabetes grows to epidemic proportions in the United States, officials in various states are searching for ways to monitor the health of their diabetic re...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced on Monday that 500 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) have been selected for the FQHC Advanced Primary Care Practice (APCP) demonstration project, which will evaluate the impact of the patient-centered medial home on improving care and lowering costs.
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.
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.
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.
