Telehealth
Piedmont Healthcare has enlisted TeleHealth Services, which develops interactive patient engagement tools and healthcare-grade televisions, to implement customized patient-centered environment, designed to improve patient education and offer interactive communication.
Eric Dishman, the Intel executive and popular healthcare reform speaker, told members of the Medical Group Management Association that America needs to move away from centralized care and embrace a distributed model.
The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing has received a grant for its Model eHealth Community for Aging project, which aims to leverage EHRs, mhealth and telehealth tools to support wellness needs for underserved older adults in Los Angeles' Koreatown.
The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates is using WebChart EHR from Medical Informatics Engineering to collect, track and manage medical information gathered from field physicals on eight U.S. military bases throughout Area Support Group Kuwait.
The two-day conference in Boston, hosted by Partners Healthcare's Center for Connected Health, brings together more than 1,000 experts to discuss new technologies and concepts.
Washington Hospital Center and AT&T have launched CodeHeart, an app for doctors that provides a real-time video and audio stream that can be used to remotely examine patients in emergencies.
The Center for Connected Health has received a research grant from the McKesson Foundation's Mobilizing for Health initiative to integrate a text-messaging program into an existing program at Massachusetts General Hospital to help diabetes patients better manage their condition.
It’s no secret telemedicine has had a profound impact on the industry, both nationally and globally. Organizations in big and small cities are seeing the benefits of employing such technology. Shahid Shah gives us the five ways telemedicine is boosting care in rural communities.
Mercy, the eighth largest Catholic healthcare system in the U.S., announced plans this week to build a virtual care center in Chesterfield, Mo., billed as "the first of its kind in the country."
A bill signed last week in California aims to greatly increase access to healthcare in rural areas by providing more telehealth services, through more providers, in more care settings.