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October 24, 2011

500 FQHCs receive $42M as part of PCMH demo project
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.
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February 03, 2010

NQF endorses measures to increase use of electronic health data
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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January 26, 2010

BIDMC data marts
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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January 05, 2010

GE, Intel take patient monitoring across the Atlantic
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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December 08, 2009

Study finds parents will use mobile phones to manage a child's diabetes
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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December 07, 2009

Geisinger focuses on quality measures for diabetes care
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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November 18, 2009

German hospital rolls out digital pen for diabetes patients
Bethesda Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany, is using digital pen technology to help diabetes patients manage the illness.
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November 05, 2009

IT aids chronic care program
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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November 04, 2009

Back to Basics: Toward a Core Set of Relevant and Portable Personal Health Information
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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November 03, 2009

HIMSS VCE Schedule
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November 02, 2009

HIMSS VCE: If you build it, be mindful of meaningful use
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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October 27, 2009

Diabetic patients report better care with use of Web-based PHRs
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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October 22, 2009

Center for Connected Health chief urges participatory medicine
Patient engagement is the secret to better health - and the Internet is making that easy, says Joseph Kvedar, MD.
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October 07, 2009

Study: EHRS improve care in community-based practices

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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September 16, 2009

Verizon to provide communications platform for JDRF
Verizon Business is helping the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in its efforts to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes.
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August 21, 2009

Demo shows IT critical to improving care of patients with chronic diseases
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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July 01, 2009

New research network to launch in summer
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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June 30, 2009

IBM-UNCHC partnership targets data analytics
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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June 25, 2009

Self-monitoring to boost European diabetes diagnostics market

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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June 22, 2009

Doctors report on telehealth success in enhancing patient quality of life

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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