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.
Remote patient monitoring technology enables healthcare providers to treat patients before their conditions becomes more acute, according to a new study from the Spyglass Consulting Group.
VeriChip, a company that makes microchips which can be implanted in humans, has sold 7,000 chips, approximately 2,000 of which have been placed in people. The company's present focus is tag...
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.
Boston Software Systems, a Sherborn, Mass.-based provider of workflow automation technology, has announced that MEDHOST, an Addison, Texas-based provider of Emergency Department Informat...
Clinical Groupware is a departure from the client-server and physician-centric EHR technology of the past 25 years, a fixed database technology that never really became popular.
Years ago, the treatment of diabetes relied as much on intuition as medicine. Excessive urination and thirst were seen as signs to test for the chronic disease, exercise and diets were prescribed to m...
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.
Electronic health records in use at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for nearly a decade will support a new $2.5 million diabetes research project focused on California's Asian population.
WellCentive, LLC today announced that WellCentive Registry has been selected by my1HIE(sm) (My One Health Information Exchange) as its patient registry and disease management system.
Late 2007 saw two exciting diabetes-related remote patient monitoring projects take positive steps forward. The Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundatio...
The University of North Carolina Health Care is partnering with IBM to create a data warehouse designed to help speed the development of new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer.
The first commercial trial of mPRO Care, launched by Mobile Health Tech at Clarkstown Medical Associates, PC in New York, touts a two-way mobile diabetes solution that provides automated reminders and accepts readings using standard cell phones on all major U.S. service providers.
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.
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.
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.
