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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While nothing can beat an in-person experience, physicians can check in on them digitally, through remote patient monitoring tools or video consults. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits. Technology is rapidly changing the bedside examination.

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Unifying the Healthcare Assembly Line

Mobile Health Matters

The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush. The launch of Meaningful Use under the Affordable Care Act drove the electronic medical record (EMR) “Gold Rush,” the mass implementation of EMRs in a shift away from paper charts. Keep in mind that many ACOs and IDNs have numerous EMRs throughout their systems.

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From Boost Mobile and Swype to Xealth: One Entrepreneur’s Journey into Healthtech

Chilmark Research

You’ll have to watch the video to hear their rationale for what makes Xealth different from previous solutions – I make sure to press him a bit on the topic since it’s our view here at Chilmark that this type of offering is critically important to integrating these new digital tools into care provision workflows in an effective way.

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Ochsner Health System’s Digital Medicine Program Success

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Digital Medicine is a nationally recognized, clinically proven program revolutionizing how we treat chronic conditions combining digital tools and engagement with a dedicated care team. Ochsner O Bar Supports Patient's Digital Health needs In 2015, Ochsner Health launched its first Digital Medicine Program for Hypertension.

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Therapy Notes: How Does It Work and Is It Effective?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Therapy notes software such as therapy tech, mobile health applications, electronic health records (or EHR), video coaching, and many others are available to help with practice management. Quenza has progress measurement tools to track the activity outcomes feedback and monitor clients’ progress over time.

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Shaping the future of health technologies

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Patient information is the currency through which health systems process, exchange, and interpret information. Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. Mobile health.

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2013 Year in Review

eHealth

Presented two posters: Mapping Discrete EMR Data to the UMLS. Design of a Registry Management Tool for EMR Data. In May and June, I taught my first online course for the Health Informatics program at Kent State Universit y in Clinical Analytics.

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