Telephone and internet consultations are being backed to become an increasingly important method of receiving healthcare advice within the next 10 years. New technology is being tested in New Zealand that allows people with long-term or chronic conditions management to provide information through t...
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Checking the condition of a patient in labor is just an app click away for obstetricians serving Forsyth Medical Center. And Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is using internally created mobile technology to help detect sepsis — a severe illness in which the bloodstream is overwhelmed by bacteri...
Read More →MAXIMUS, Inc. (NYSE:MMS), a leading provider of government services worldwide, announced today that it is now offering eHealth Literacy Services to help state and community programs meet the communication and engagement challenges facing consumers and providers using the new health information techn...
Read More →Hospitals with advanced health information technology systems and a high quality of care achieve greater revenue growth, attend to more patients, enjoy a superior reputation for excellence, and are better able to contain costs, a report from Fitch Ratings has revealed. As hospitals accelerate the ad...
Read More →As the nation’s baby boomers sign up for Medicare, they face a bewildering assortment of questions about their healthcare. In addition to a raft of complicated information from the government, a national consumer group also is offering some answers. Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of ...
Read More →Ford researchers demonstrate a series of possible in-car health and wellness connectivity services and apps aimed at helping people with chronic illnesses or medical disorders such as diabetes, asthma or allergies manage their condition while on the go Leveraging Ford SYNC®, researchers developed g...
Read More →Ensuring every patient has an electronic health record and sharing that information between doctors, hospitals and labs will fundamentally change the way we do health care, the national health IT director said Friday. That means the end of the “retail model,” where medical services are ...
Read More →In some healthcare settings, smartphones have turned out to be the best mobile option. At UPMC Mercy, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital network, CIO Bruce Haviland started deploying a BlackBerry-based mobile alert system for nurses in October, replacing various wireless ph...
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Since gadget-happy doctors got their hands on the iPad last year, many have turned it from a toy into a professional tool. Dr. Jeffrey Westcott, cardiology board chair at Swedish Medical Center, a four-hospital complex in Seattle, even sees it as a lifesaver. It can “help me avoid mistakes by ...
Read More →The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) is expanding its “add-on” testing of ambulatory electronic health records to three additional specialties. CCHIT, one of six federally sanctioned EHR testing and certification bodies, on Tuesday published its certific...
Read More →New Jersey’s health care system is in bad shape. Costs are high, quality is mediocre and doctors have been slow to adopt information technology that would make care more efficient. That was the consensus at a conference in Trenton on Tuesday of health policymakers and stakeholders, convened by ...
Read More →As the Obama administration pushes ahead with plans to increase the use of electronic medical records, two internal reports released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed “significant concerns” about security gaps in the system. The Office of the Inspector Gener...
Read More →Fifty-five percent of California’s primary care physicians use an electronic health record (EHR) in their practice, a report from the California Healthcare Foundation has revealed. The report relied on information from 65,388 physician practices to gauge the adoption and use of health informa...
Read More →Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is creativity that brought information technology into medicine. While some advances such as telemedicine, and electronic medical records are now used widely, it is still the gadget-friendly specialists who have slowly brought these devices by the han...
Read More →A nonprofit organization of more than 35,000 members, HIMSS offers expert advice on how to use technology to improve health care. It will upgrade its JobMine online job board to include healthcare jobs for graduates of HHS’ ONC HIT Workforce Development Program, an initiative by ONC (the Offic...
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