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Wondering if your patients will benefit from mobile services? Maybe you'll want to follow WellPoint's lead. The insurer has rolled out a new provider directory for its beneficiaries designed Read more...

Despite benefits, telemedicine barriers remain high Increasingly, it's become obvious that telemedicine has a place in the healthcare system, not only to improve care but also to conserve resources. Read more...

While it's still more of a phenomenon elsewhere in the world, it's looking like healthcare-based text messaging is set to become more common in the U.S. Right now, services have been launched in Read more...

Today, you'd be hard-pressed to find a hospital that didn't rely on various forms of wireless communication. However, some hospitals are going into wireless more aggressively than others. One Read more...

As we've reported on at length here in FierceHealthIT, vendors and providers are growing increasingly interested in methods for managing chronic diseases remotely. And the juggernaut continues to Read more...

> The Google executive running the search engine giant's health projects has stepped down. Read more...

To date, most of the attention given to RFID implants has focused on blood glucose monitoring. Now, a non-profit serving dialysis patients is looking at ways to use implants as well. Working with Read more...

EMRs have long been held out as a key tool in the fight to better manage chronic disease. Given their capacity to review records automatically--and let physicians know when standard steps weren't taken--the idea seemed like a no-brainer. In reality, though, EMRs in and of themselves may not help much when it comes to improving diabetes care, a new study suggests. The study, which was published in the Annals of Family Medicine, looked the care diabetics got in 50 primary care …

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A Santa Cruz, CA-based health information exchange has developed a diabetes disease registry which has significantly improved providers' ability to identify and treat diabetics in their care. The network, which includes two hospitals, labs, radiology, pathology and transcription services, share information using technology from vendor Axolotl. About a year ago, the providers began using the technology to develop the registry, which identifies likely candidates for the disease and triggers …

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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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