Bernie Monegain
An interdisciplinary research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a $1.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to develop a smartphone application to help people with advanced diabetes and foot ulcers better manage their disease.
The use of electronic health records, telemedicine and e-visits are key ways to provide chronically ill Canadians the care they need, a new report based on a Commonwealth Fund survey recommends. Results from the survey reveal that sicker Canadians struggle to gain access to care.
The chief of the cardiology department at 400-bed Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has developed software for controlling heart devices remotely using an iPad. The hospital's executives say the technology could revolutionize the way physicians reprogram pacemakers.
Robert M. Tennant:
Senior policy advisor, MGMA
Focused on federal legislative and regulatory health information technology issues
With the conversion to ICD-10 disease and treatment coding expected by the government-set deadline of Oct. 1 2013, and all that entails, a new career path is emerging in healthcare – the chief knowledge officer, or CKO.
Sixty-five hospitals have earned the Leapfrog Group's annual "Top Hospital" designation, equaling 2010's record-setting total. The designation, which Leapfrog bills as the most competitive national hospital quality award in the country, recognizes quality of care.
In August, Healthcare IT News showed how Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, has been providing quality care for decades, thanks to a clinical analytics system that could serve as a model for other healthcare systems across the country.
In what George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, called a historic announcement, Kaiser Permanente, the Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, the Group Health Cooperative and the Mayo Clinic connected on April 6, 2011, to create the Care Connectivity Consortium – a model for health data exchange that officials touted as being easily replicated at healthcare systems and community hospitals across the country.
RSNA Image Share will provide demonstrations on how best to share medical images all week during exhibit hours at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Nov. 22-Dec. 2 at McCormick Place in Chicago, where commercial vendors and research organizations will use IHE profiles for image exchange.
Oncology presentations and exhibits are always a major focus of the RSNA annual meeting. This year is no exception. Count on GE Healthcare to devote a piece of its city-block-sized booth to its new $1 billion Healthymagination initiative to the fight against breast cancer.