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Emerging Home Patient Monitoring Technologies

The area of health care is no longer contained between the four corners of   health and medical institutions and hospitals. Health and clinical issues as well as patient management are now more accessible even as [+]

Health 2.0: Combining Old Fashioned Medicine with New-Age Technology

For the Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego Heather Freudenthal was asked to produce a short video profiling a trailblazing doctor from Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Jay Parkinson is a young doctor living in the trendy [+]

Looking in the direction of Care Coordination

HealthTechnica's Newest Staff Blogger:  Kate Riley We keep hearing the words. The politicians are talking about it. The Doctors are talking about it. “Care Coordination.” We all understand it means that some kind of change [+]

Wireless Healthcare and Heart Failure Management

There are many good heart failure medications. What's been missing, however, has been the critical information to help physicians adjust the medication when necessary to keep the patient healthy and out of the [+]

Austin Medical Center among first to adopt new care model

The Post Bulletin covers the newly minted "Health Care Homes" that have been certified in Minnesota: Patients with chronic conditions might get more one-on-one health care at Austin Medical Center under a new model of [+]

Medical Homes, Accountable Care and E-Health

Many state governments are piloting E-Health and Patient Centered Medical Home initiatives. In this vid, Iowa is engaging in this new discussion. Iowa e-Health: A public-private collaboration to promote health information technology (health [+]

Basic E-Tools Of Medical Home

Medical homes (or patient-centered medical home - PCMH), also known as, Connected Care, is designed to provide more comprehensive and personalized care coordination for patients to increase the access and quality of health care. The [+]

Remote Healthcare Monitoring: The Smart Bandaid

Qualcomm is working with companies like Corventis who have created Piix a Smart BandAid which provides the next-generation ambulatory cardiac monitoring service with beat-to-beat, real time analysis, automatic arrhythmia detection and wireless [+]

Patient-centric Healthcare with Dr. Susan Wilder

Dr. Susan Wilder and Heather Troemel discuss a patient-centric model with host Ray Torres of the Points of View program. Also see additional information on the Patient Centered Medical Home [+]

Patient Centered Medical Home

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) introduced the concept of the medical home in 1967, with an intention to provide a central location for archiving a child’s medical record. Recognition of the [+]

New Funding for Community Health Technology and Patient Centered Medical Home

President Obama announces that the Recovery Act will provide new funding for Community Health Centers to finance new construction, modernize information technology, and build a medical home model. [+]

A Tale of Two e-Patients

A Tale of Two ePatients - Based Upon True Stories - By Val Jones, MD. Presented on October 27, 2009 at the e-Patient Connections 2009 Conference in Philadelphia. http://www.epatient2009.com [+]

Microsoft’s Vision of the Future

The ultimate Patient Centered Medical Home? [+]

Medical Home Event in Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of health is putting on a "Health Care Homes" medical home event. October 26-29, 2009 Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward with Patient- and Family-Centered Care - An Intensive Training from the Institute [+]

Web Seminar, Making Smarter Healthcare a Reality

IBM is putting on a free web seminar on September 16.  This seminar will dive into some of the new IBM tools focused directly at the health care space.  IBM has made huge inroads with [+]

BizTimes Milwaukee visits UnitedHealth’s new mobile clinic

UnitedHealth Group recently partnered with Cisco to form Connected Care (aka Patient Centered Medical Home), a national telehealth network designed to expand physicians' reach into underserved communities. BizTimes Milwaukee reporter Alysha Schertz recently visited UnitedHealth's [+]

Intel steps into Patient Centered Medical Home

The folks at Intel are also looking at the PCMH model of medicine.  The more I see from the large IT companies, the more apparent it is that PCMH is a movement that will not [+]

Family Medicine and Health Information Technology

Very quick, short video for helping layman to understand the needs and new oppurtunities of Health IT in the family and primary medicine environments: [+]

Blue Cross / Blue Shield steps into PCMH

BCBS is stepping into a new side of Patient Centered Medical Home.  A pilot system in Hawaii and Minnesota allows for many components of primary care to be handled via a web bound system. What would [+]