Quality and Safety
Approximately one-third of all falls taken by seniors require medical treatment, and 10 percent eventually lead to death. Those statistics are spurring Robert Miller to develop a "smart shoe" that would help healthcare providers detect problems with balance and walking and alert seniors before they fall.
The Affordable Care Act offers effective new technology and sophisticated data analysis for reducing healthcare fraud that will build on programs that helped Medicare and Medicaid recover billions of dollars in 2009, according to the government's annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) report.
The Psilos Group, a healthcare venture capital firm, has spotlighted information and medical technology as critical to healthcare reform, insisting that expanded adoption and investment activity in IT will produce big results.
Some hospitals are greener than others, and Practice Greenhealth, an organization that promotes sustainable healthcare practices throughout hospitals – including in the information technology arena – has identified the Premier healthcare alliance and 61 of its member hospitals as leaders.
Sutter Health will spend $10 million over the next two years on improving patient safety, with one focus on reducing healthcare-acquired infections.
GE Healthcare recently launched a new global business unit that provides eHealth solutions and services to healthcare providers, health insurances and governmental agencies.
Butler Health System in Butler, Pa., has deployed a new patient portal to help its more than 200 affiliated physicians achieve “meaningful use.”
Information technology is playing a pivotal role in the work on the ground in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as Boston-based Partners in Health tends to the sick and the maimed.
Three hospitals will implement new technology to help stave off healthcare-affiliated infections and improve patient safety.
An Irish company with offices in the U.S., Taiwan, Mexico and South Africa has rolled out what's being touted as the first flexible circuit loop antenna, which promises over 40 percent efficiency in healthcare monitoring devices.