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Study: Telemedicine offers clinical, cost benefits for chronic disease care
Trend: Remote patient monitoring market growing
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Remote Monitoring
Monitoring chronically-ill patients remotely--notably those with diabetes and cardiac problems--seems to be a …
Groups sink $5.3M into PHR apps
Over the next 18 months, researchers will conduct a new, ambitious effort aimed at helping consumers use IT to manage their health. Participants in the Project HealthDesign initiative, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and California HealthCare Foundation, will develop tools intended to improve the PHR model. Unlike other PHR development efforts, which often create technical silos of their own, the grant teams are designing applications that can be built upon a common …
... Read more...MN awards $1.5M in HIT development grants
The Minnesota Department of Health has announced a $1.5 million series of grants intended to help rural and underserved areas of the state develop health information collaborative. Grants will fund groups pulling together a broad array of entities in a given community, including hospitals, clinics, health departments and long-term care facilities. Groups will use the money either to plan for health IT adoption or implement an e-health project intended to improve local healthcare. Projects …
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