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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida launched its new mobile web site less than four weeks ago, but early tracking reveals “encouraging” usage for both members and nonmembers.
Information technology is an integral part of the agreement between Commonwealth Hematology-Oncology (CHO), the largest community-based private cancer practice in New England, and Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), which seeks to provide cancer patients with greater resources, closer to home.
Electronic health record systems could give rise to increased liability for healthcare providers, according to professors from Case Western Reserve University.
A small pilot study at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, found that sending text reminders to adolescent diabetes patients about their insulin treatments improved treatment adherence and blood glucose levels.
The increasing adoption of EHRs and other digital technologies by primary care physicians and specialists points to trends expected to help create "dramatic upswings in doctors' case loads," according to a new survey by research company Knowledge Networks.
Today some ambulances come equipped with telecommunciations technology that allows in-transport contact with physicians. But even the minutes between when a patient is loaded into the ambulance, or out and into a care setting, can leave room for miscommunications, according to one expert.
The electronic prescribing rate in upstate New York increased from 12 percent in 2009 to 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010, representing 3.6 million new and renewed prescriptions on an annual basis, according to a new report. The report suggests that this number will grow significantly as the result of the technology becoming more affordable, due in part to the government's incentives for health IT adoption.
E-mail use between patients with diabetes and hypertension and their doctors resulted in improved quality of care scores, according to a study of patients in Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region.
Healthcare providers are getting heavily nickeled and dimed on their energy costs without even knowing it, “Green IT” proponents say. And while going “green” may be a high-profile social movement with political overtones, it is actually a concept rooted in pragmatism designed to save money while saving the earth at the same time.
In this NewsMaker interview, Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain discusses John Glaser's eleven months as adviser to ONC chief David Blumenthal.