According to the not-for-profit research group eHealth Initiative (eHI), clinics in poor neighborhoods can improve patients’ health and cut hospitalizations by using mobile devices, patient Web portals, and social networks to monitor and inform. These findings are based on a recent study, An Issue Brief on eHealth Tools and Diabetes Care for Socially Disadvantaged […]
Effect of telehealth on use of secondary care and mortality: findings from the Whole System Demonstrator cluster randomized trial. Philips Telehealth was one of three technology providers selected to provide telehealth systems to the Whole System Demonstrator program, sponsored by Britain’s National Health Service. Results were strongly positive, and strongly contradicted two recent, widely criticized […]
by Audrey KinsellaAt last month’s Partners Healthcare-sponsored conference [in October 2011], “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” new models of home care dominated the high-level discussions. Examples of what could be dubbed “anywhere care,” provided for people requiring regular care to manage chronic conditions, are not home healthcare […]
