Category: eHealth

Premier’s national quality improvement collaborative, QUEST, says it has saved approximately $11.65 billion and prevented 136,375 deaths over the past five years through process improvements and… read more …read more    

CHRISTUS Health, recognized as a semifinalist in the 2013 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program, was able to use remote patient monitoring to decrease costs and 30-day readmissions, while improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. CHRISTUS Health was recognized as a semifinalist in the 2013 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program. Leaders of this team, along with leaders…

An increase in healthcare provider use of cloud technology combined with a decrease in the cost of IT implementation could propel big changes for the U.S. healthcare IT market in the next few years, according to a new report. read more …read more    

How VA is driving telemedicine In 2013, the VA used its increasingly popular telehealth platform to deliver care for 600,000 veterans, accounting for a total of 1.7 million episodes of care. Researchers develop smartglasses that help surgeons see cancerous cells Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are testing smartglasses that help surgeons as they…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week posted a final rule in the Federal Register mandating that device manufacturers and importers submit adverse event reports for medical devices electronically. read more …read more    

The use of technology in nursing has become something they can’t live without, but technology must be better integrated into nursing education, according to Elizabeth “Betty” Jordan, R.N., an assistant professor at the University of South Florida College of Nursing. read more …read more