Medical Supplies May 2012 Archive

Mobile health technology connects patients to their caregivers remotely through communication over consumer IT devices. Smart phones, cell phones, computers, laptops, and wireless medical devices built for patients to ... Read More

Organizations like Partners Healthcare's Center for Connected Health have been researching, and implementing, mobile health programs that are keeping patients invested in their own health maintenance. Sometimes called "mHealth," "connected health," ... Read More

The Mayo Clinic last week launched its first patient-facing mobile app. The app allows patients to log in to access much of their electronic health record, such as their ... Read More

In a study conducted and published jointly by the University of Texas Health Science Center and Boston's Institute for Healthcare Improvement, waiting and transfers were deemed two of the more ... Read More

One of the first studies on the initial results of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid's policy to reduce payments for hospitalizations associated with preventable healthcare acquired conditions has been ... Read More

Healthrageous to Integrate 1st FDA Cleared cellular-enabled blood glucose meter. Boston-based Healthrageous, Inc., a digital health engagement and management company that leverages technology to connect patients and their care givers via ... Read More

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced their Healthcare Innovations Awards. Twenty-six programs from around the U.S. have been awarded funding from the CMS for a ... Read More

Sometimes I need to pull my head out of the weeds to broaden my perspective. Many times, when I've been able to do that, I've realized the solution to ... Read More

Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSIs) are one of the deadliest healthcare acquired infections. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has posted a Central Line Insertion checklist from Virginia ... Read More

Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments have surpassed $5 billion to 93,650 physicians and hospitals through April 2012 in preliminary estimates, according to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ... Read More

Cigna has entered the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) arena in force. It has added 10 new ACO initiatives in 7 states. Cigna's new total now includes 22 ACO ... Read More