Mount Sinai among organizations that bring doctors, nurses directly to patients

While some hospitals use the old-fashioned concept of the house call to provide better post-discharge care, other organizations take the idea even further by treating certain patients entirely from the comfort of their homes, according to post on the New York Times' Well blog. Read More

Cedars-Sinai CIO: Let the patients decide what data to share via Apple HealthKit

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has taken an interesting approach: opening up HealthKit functionality to all of its patients, and letting them tell doctors what data they want to share. Read More

Kaiser invests in telehealth

Kaiser Permanente Invests $1M in CTN to Advance Use of Telemedicine to Underserved...

physiciansnewsnetwork.com•California Telehealth Network (CTN), the state's partnership for telehealth, announced April 24, 2015 that Kaiser Read More

Digital is a catalyst for change in healthcare

Scott Hague Digital Healthcare Agency

In this post we look at a recent survey conducted which highlights the top ten issue of healthcare in 2015. Digital is paramount to this.

Top 10 healthcare issues of 2015 – digital is driving change integratedchange.net

At Integrated Change we take a keen interest in monitoring future healthcare trends. We’ve reviewed the PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Health Research Institute (HRI) report, which outlines the fundamental drivers of change in the US healthcare industry... Read More

ONC Emphasizes Interoperability in IT Privacy, Security Guide Update

4/13/2015, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an updated version of its Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information. The update is part of ONC's goal of explaining how security regulations can improve interoperability and includes information on HIPAA rules and the meaningful use program. FierceHealthIT, "Health IT Buzz." Read More

CMS Launches Five-Star Ratings on Hospital Compare Website

	4/16/2015 CMS unveiled the first-ever five-star quality ratings on its Hospital Compare website, awarding five-star ratings to about 7% of the nation's hospitals. The quality ratings are based on publicly reported patient experiences from July 2013 to June 2014. Modern Healthcare et al.Read More

HIMSS15 Survey: Informatics Nurses Have Big Impact in Healthcare Orgs

April 14, 2015 by Rajiv Leventhal

Informatics nurses bring continue to bring great value to the use of clinical systems and technologies at their healthcare organizations, according to the 2015 HIMSS Impact of the Informatics Nurse Survey.

The results of the survey, released at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference in Chicago on April 12, indicated that informatics nurses bring greatest value to the implementation phase (85 percent) and optimization phase (83 percent) of clinical systems process. Overall, the survey included 576 respondents.  Read More

Healthcare May Change, Delivery Fundamentals Will Not

Paul Schilstra President & Founder at primeASCENT, Re-Imagineering Healthcare

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/healthcare-may-change-delivery-fundamentals-will-not.html

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Tablet app reduces CHF patient readmissions by 53 percent

New York City-based Health Recovery Solutions announced that its tablet-based program reduced the 30-day readmission rate for 130 congestive heart failure (CHF) patients at Penn Medicine’s Penn Care at Home program by 53 percent. 
The hospital provides patients with a cellular-enabled tablet, with the program, called PatientConnect, preloaded. Providers pay Health Recovery Solutions a licensing fee for the package.

Patients can use the system to communicate with their physician via video chat. The tablet software also encourages patients to record medication, weight, activity, and symptoms. Clinicians and caregivers can monitor this data through their own apps, ClinicianConnect and CaregiverConnect. Read More

Baptist Health using tele-health to promote breastfeeding

A new study suggests babies who breastfeed longer, end up smarter and more educated as adults. In Arkansas, breastfeeding rates are lower in rural areas.  Technology at Baptist Health is being used to change that. Rural hospitals often don't have help available for new mothers who are learning how to breastfeed.
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Researchers test app for veteran PTSD treatment

The Syracuse VA Medical Center is launching a study to investigate if a mobile application can help veterans better self-manage post-traumatic stress disorder.
The 16-week study will examine the PTSD Coach, which aims to teach users self-management strategies and techniques. While there is evidence the app can help with cognitive behavioral strategies, it's unclear whether it is a good fit for a military veteran PTSD sufferer. The research team, led by Kyle Possemato, a clinical research psychologist, also wants to see if melding the app with clinician support can enhance self-management activity.  For more information: - read the research proposal  
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Apple-IBM mobile health apps: Just what the nurse ordered

Judy (@JudyMottl and @FierceHealthIT)
What a difference a year makes.  IBM and Apple rolled out a quartet of apps aimed specifically at assisting nurses.
The four new apps in the MobileFirst for iOS portfolio include:

• The Hospital RN tool, which enables nurses tap into record keeping systems, organization tools and iBeacon technology for streamlined management tasks.
• Hospital Tech, which lets nursing assistants organize and prioritize tasks, which frees up time for patient care.
• Hospital Lead, which helps care managers and charge nurses better manage workloads, staff assignments and patient discharge tasks.
• The Home RN app, which provides tools to gain greater efficiency in managing caseloads and reporting needs to specialists during home care interaction. Read More

Smartphone Medicine: How It's Saving Lives

• WebMD's Future of Health

Medscape Business of Medicine  March 02, 2015

" In addition to diagnosing common illnesses, smartphones are being used to monitor such crucial factors as blood pressure in hypertensive patients and glucose levels in diabetics..."
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Inherent Risks of Health IT, EHRs Putting Patients in Peril

Inherent Risks of Health IT, EHRs Putting Patients in Peril

by GREG SLABODKIN AND JOSEPH GOEDERT

As the adoption of health information technology continues to grow industry-wide, the potential for health IT-related harm to patients and even death will increase unless risk-reducing measures are put into place by healthcare organizations. READ MORE »

Telemedical Care: What Patients Think

By Nancy Rowe on March 26, 2015

I was vacationing in a tiny, remote mountain town on the east coast last summer when I became ill. It was a Sunday evening and the local urgent care center didn’t open until the next morning. I didn’t want to wait 15 hours for urgent care, and I didn’t want to be driven to the regional ER, where I might have to wait a long time to be seen—and might be exposed to something contagious while in the waiting room.
Luckily, I had recently heard about one of the companies that provides urgent care visits via telemedicine. So I took out my iPad, loaded the app, and called in. More

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Apple, IBM Launch Four Mobile Apps Designed for Nurses

Apple and IBM have released four health care enterprise mobile applications as part of a partnership established last year. The apps are designed specifically for nurses and seek to help them better coordinate and organize care. Health Data Management, Clinical Innovation & Technology.  Read More

Pew: 62% of Smartphone Users Look Up Health Information on Device

A new Pew Research Center report finds that 62% of smartphone owners have used their phones to look up health information within the last year, making it the most commonly reported use of a smartphone. According to the report, younger individuals are more likely to use their smartphones for this purpose. MobiHealthNews, MedCity News.  Read More

RWJF Tackles Concerns About Health Data Sharing, Privacy

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a report that recommends ways to harness data to improve individual and community health. The recommendations -- which are based on insights gathered from public discussions held last year -- aim to address public concerns related to the use and exchange of personal data. FierceHealthIT et al. Read More

Providers Not Waiting for Telemedicine Laws

Providers Not Waiting for Telemedicine Laws
By Mary Shedden
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Facilities across the state have already invested millions in this latest technology, although Florida still has no law outlining how remote health care should be practiced. Read More

Data-Finding Solutions-RWJF

From RWJF_Live: The real question is not 'What data do you collect?' but rather, 'What problem do you want to solve?' http://t.co/rMaktJstjV‪#‎Data4Health‬

Use Data for Health, Not for Data’s Sake

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Gamification in Health Care Is Booming, but Is it Effective?

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Gamification in Health Care Is Booming, but Is it Effective?

Tom Baranowski of Baylor College of Medicine, Willis Gee of Cigna, Cameron Lister of Brigham Young University, Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and Rhett Woods of Rally Health spoke with iHealthBeat about the growing use of digital gaming to encourage healthy behaviors and reduce costs. Read More

AHRQ Issues White Paper on Health IT Best Practices in Primary Care

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has issued a white paper identifying health IT tools that can improve the quality of care among primary care physicians. The white paper also establishes best practices to facilitate increased adoption and effective use of health IT provided by primary care providers. EHR Intelligence. Read More

Lowering millennial dropout rates with mobile technology

Dropout rates among college students remain high, and approximately 21 percent of students at public institutions fail to graduate. However, grades and tough class schedules are not the only reason students are leaving college without a degree. Institutions are increasingly finding that engagement is a common factor that affects student retention.
As a consequence, colleges and universities are working feverishly to engage students and turning to mobile technology, specifically apps, to do so. But as the edtech market continues to boom, are these tools engaging students in the right ways or are they just a distraction?  Read More

Forward thinking colleges and universities that take a mobile approach when it comes to increasing engagement through apps will be ahead of the curve.