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Self-service HIT options on the radar

May 6, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

While healthcare lags behind other industries in rolling out self-service technology, times may be changing. Very gradually, providers and health plans are launching self-service options, particularly kiosks, to streamline access to key information, following the lead of industries like retail and travel which have had them for many years. Right now, vendors are definitely ahead of providers when it comes such technology, but their enthusiasm may help drive things along. When giants like …

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Trend: Higher-end monitoring for seniors at home

February 11, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

According to one statistic, 19 million Americans are caring for someone over 75  years old. If the elderly person doesn't live with the caregiver, how does that caregiver--typically usually a harassed working mom or dad with huge responsibilities of their own--keep track of whether their elderly family member is safe?  Increasingly, home monitoring companies are moving beyond the "alarm button" necklace, good only when the senior knows to or cares to push the button, to more …

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Firm offers mobile disease management platform

December 10, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

San Francisco-based mobile applications developer BeWell Mobile has partnered with Indian technology firm Wipro Technology to offer cellphone-based disease management services. The platform includes a provider interface allowing clinicians and other professional users to set up individual patient applications, and a separate patient interface integrating a diary, reminders and reports. BeWell is currently conducting an asthma management pilot with the San Mateo Medical Center and Clinics …

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Physician mobile, wireless tech use jumps

November 26, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Driven by a desire to move seamlessly across the clinical environment, doctors are leapfrogging over WiFi-enabled laptops and PC-synched PDAs into the next generation of wireless connectivity. Rather than lugging around a laptop or last-gen PDA, physicians are buying Swiss Army Knife-style smartphones with cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities. And they're not just surfing the Web and reading email. In some cases they're even retrieving medical images, using them when seconds count …

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HHS offers preventive care tool for PCPs

October 29, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

This week, HHS made new software available which is designed to help primary care physicians select and recommend preventative care services. The Electronic Preventive Services Selector application, which is available for Palm and Windows Mobile devices, allows clinicians to access the latest prevention recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The USPTF is sponsored by HHS's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Physicians can also access the same data via the …

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Editor's Corner

October 22, 2006 — 8:01pm ET


As the theft of patient data from Allina Hospitals and Clinics reminds us (see below), today's healthcare IT departments are in something of a security bind. With HIPAA enforcement looming, maintaining tight data security is more critical than …

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Vendor trials cellphone-based diabetes monitoring

October 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

A Scottsdale, AZ-based vendor has begun a trial of technology that wirelessly transmits diabetics' blood sugar levels from their cellphone to a monitoring server. MedApps is testing out the system, D-PAL, with 50 Pennsylvania-based Medicare and Medicaid recipients over next month. D-PAL's server monitors blood glucose levels, which are transmitted from the patients blood glucose monitor to phone, and phone to network, and calls the patient to ask health questions if the level is outside …

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Do health IT investments help bottom line?

October 1, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

You'd get a lot of "maybes" and a fair sprinkling of "no's" if you asked that question at many medical facilities, according to an outstanding piece in the Detroit News that focuses on General Motors and its frustrations with its healthcare providers' inefficiency and reluctance to use the latest IT tools. "Hospitals have only so much capital to invest," notes Henry Ford Health System CEO Nancy Schlichting. "If it's between improving facilities, medical technology and EMR …

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Survey: More IT coming to oncology care

September 24, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

A recently released study of 189 medical oncologists in private practice found that community cancer doctors are adopting technology necessary to collect data and are ready to support pay for performance programs. Ninety-four percent of surveyed oncologists said EMRs would be required to manage their practice efficiently and effectively, and 70 percent said they believed pay-for-performance programs could control patient costs and improve outcomes.

To read details about the study
- check out this report form CIO Insight

BlueCross pushes e-health technology in Tennessee

September 17, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, is working with Caremark Rx Inc. to boost Caremark's e-prescriptions program in an effort to advance physician adoption of the technology across the state. The companies worked to launch iScribe in …

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