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The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare, announced Wednesday encouraging initial findings from a medication adherence study, using a wireless electronic pill bottle to remind patients with high blood pressure to take their medication.
HealthBridge, a not-for-profit health information exchange serving the Greater Cincinnati tri-state area, has launched its new Tri-State Regional Extension Center, which will help more than 1,700 physicians and other medical professionals switch from paper to electronic health records.
Soon after implementing an emergency department information system (EDIS) from Addison, Texas-based MEDHOST, Beaufort Memorial Hospital began achieving significant financial returns and seeing operational improvements.
The U.S. healthcare system comes in last for performance among seven industrialized nations, despite spending the most, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The researchers note that healthcare reform and uptake of health information technology hold promise for the future.
Residents of Buena Vista, Lamar, Leadville and Del Norte, Colo. are among the latest wave of communities nationwide that have recently gained access to innovative telehealth services.
CaroMont Health, Sg2 and GE Healthcare will work together on several initiatives aimed at tackling the rising costs of delivering healthcare. The first - a bundled payment pilot designed to provide quality care at competitive pricing, improve care coordination, and align hospitals and physicians on cost savings incentives - is slated to begin by the end of the year.
Boston's CareGroup Healthcare System, an integrated delivery network (IDN) composed of four hospitals and hundreds of clinics and physicians' offices, has selected the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform to replace its legacy eGate platform for strategic integration throughout the organization.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be the first federal agency to test a mapping and data analysis tool developed by a White House oversight board to spot irregularities in the flow of economic stimulus funds.
OMB director Orzsag promotes governmentwide use of tool developed by stimulus funding transparency board.
On the eve of issuing its final rule on meaningful use, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid opens program Website.