Telehealth
“We’re not award seekers,” said Daniel Nigrin, CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital. Standing among a meager 1.2 percent of hospitals achieving HIMSS Stage 7 Analytics Award, Boston Children’s Hospital has one of the nation’s most sophisticated electronic health records systems, garnering nine ‘Most Wired’ titles from the Hospital and Health Network. Knowing this, it’s hard to believe Nigrin’s assertion, but any visit to the hospital will confirm that it really is all about the patients.
Bob Nguyen, MD, urologist at Boston Children's Hospital, shows off his department's teleurology robot, a cutting edge new device for a telemedicine pilot program at his practice.
Down with the need for lengthy commutes, transportation costs, and too much time waiting – the barriers that often decrease the quality of rural health are officially dissolving for the nation’s veterans.
Wolfgang Ward enlisted with the United States Marine Corps fresh from high school in 2001. The September 11 attacks occurred while he was at boot camp. Within two years, he was deployed to Northern Iraq.
Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Adam Darkins, MD, chief consultant of care coordination services at the Department of Veterans Affairs, about the ways VA is deploying technology to deliver care to service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
With the highest mortality rate in healthcare and costing hospitals an estimated $180 billion each year, intensive care units (ICUs) are established regulars in the health IT reform spotlight.
The telemedicine and health IT camps need to overcome their traditional way of operating in silos and develop partnerships to make a significant impact on improving the quality of care in the healthcare system.
Mobile health is poised to "explode" over the next decade, says Chad Udell, managing director of Float Mobile Learning, a mobile learning consulting, strategy and research firm based in Morton, Ill.
A remote monitoring program implemented by Geisinger Health Plan using interactive voice response (IVR) and other telemonitoring technology to aid case managers has shown a 44 percent reduction in hospital readmissions.
Officials at Emmi Solutions, a healthcare communication company, announced that its interactive patient engagement programs are now fully functional on smartphones and tablets.