Mobile

Cedars-Sinai's new Safe Transition Home initiative aims to reduce hospital readmissions and improve outcomes by smoothly transitioning people from the inpatient setting to their homes.

The emerging smartphone technology will target half-a-dozen diseases such as malaria and typhoid in the field to enable clinicians to deliver better treatment immediately.

New York's largest private employer embraces a 'mobile intranet' to keep thousands of far-flung, previously 'digitally disconnected' staffers in the loop.

Inspector General found that Veterans Affairs used money allocated for medical services to build a suite of mHealth apps and enhance its electronic health record, in a preliminary and thus far unpublished report.

Google, the world's most used search engine, is partnering with two of the world's leading health organizations to take the confusion out of symptom searching.

Allegro Pediatrics has been able to support its mobile workforce by expanding its Citrix IT infrastructure. The expansion has increased the performance, speed, stability and scalability of the delivery of its EHR and apps to its clinicians.

St. Luke's Health System has been able to grow significantly, adding several new facilities, thanks to simplifying its IT infrastructure and enabling a mobile environment for its clinicians.

The move would empower patients to control their own data, according to Ricky Bloomfield, MD, of Duke Health, and help eradicate the tradition of paternalism in medicine.

Security begins with access but it doesn’t need to end there.

In 2015, Providence, RI-based Lifespan conducted what was, at the time, the largest “big bang” implementation of Epic’s electronic health record (EHR).