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NewsWorkflow software, robots poised to transform care
We have separate publications called FierceHealthIT and FierceEMR for a reason: Thanks in no small part to the federal "meaningful use" incentive program, EMRs are front of mind for many health IT Read more...
Baptist Health System CIO Rich Shirey: Clinical integration and network performance
Baptist Health System, which owns and manages four hospitals and 38 clinics in Alabama, has begun deploying an integrated EHR and practice management system to affiliated physician practices as part Read more...
AL employers offer remote monitoring for diabetes
An Alabama-based employer coalition has set plans to offer remote monitoring capabilities to allow member companies to track their employees and dependents with diabetes. The coalition, Employers Read more...
Study: Remote monitoring improves heart failure outcomes
A new study has concluded that remote monitoring can improve the condition of some heart failure patients, and may also reduce hospital readmissions. The pilot study, which included 150 patients Read more...
Connected health tech helps patients manage care
Evidence is growing that giving patients the ability to connect remotely with providers--and do some of their own health monitoring--is useful and often very effective. The most recent study to Read more...
ALSO NOTED: MA mulls EMR mandate; Nashville hospitals create HIE; and much more...
> A Massachusetts state Senate leader has proposed a plan, including some subsidies, which would require statewide EMR adoption by 2015. Read more...
Study: Telemonitoring seems promisingHome-based telemonitoring of patients with chronic diseases has a great deal of potential, according to a new study published this month in a high-profile health IT journal. To conduct the research, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Canadian researchers reviewed more than 65 studies published in the U.S. and Europe. The studies looked at home-based management of chronic pulmonary conditions, cardiac diseases, diabetes and hypertension … Read more...Editor's Corner
Just before the HIMSS show takes place in late February, FierceHealthIT will be announcing our first-annual list of the most progressive vendors in health IT. Now, we're journalists and researchers, not the Gartner Group, so I'm not … Read more...RFID chip reads blood glucose levelsHere at FierceHealthIT, we're hearing more about diabetes monitoring technology improvements every week. This time, we were intrigued to learn about a just-patented RFID chip that can be injected into diabetes patients to measure blood glucose levels. It should be a while before the chip hits the market, though, as the vendor still hasn't obtained its international patent … Read more... |
