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Sep 26 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Since telepsychiatry was introduced decades ago, video conferencing has been an increasingly accepted way to reach patients in hospitals, prisons, veterans’ health care facilities and rural clinics — all supervised sites.

Sep 14 2011

InformationWeek

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Combining telehealth and care management tools significantly reduces the costs of treating Medicare patients with chronic diseases, even after factoring in program costs, according to a new study published in Health Affairs

Aug 30 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The market for technologies that bring healthcare to patients instead of the other way around—mobile healthcare and telehealth—has been growing steadily. And many predict it will take an even bigger jump in the next few years.

Aug 25 2011

ehealthnews.eu

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Broomwell’s Telemedical ECG Service Saves an Estimated 144,000 Hospital Referrals

Aug 04 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As efforts increase to expand access to broadband in rural areas, telemedicine should play a key role in the solution.

Jul 29 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Epocrates has won over nearly half of the nation’s doctors for its free smartphone apps that lets them look up information on drug dosing, interactions and insurance coverage while seeing a patient.

Jul 28 2011

Star Tribune

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Expanding the nation’s broadband network is crucial to improving care, according to the study, because many illnesses can be handled over the Internet.

Jul 21 2011

InformationWeek

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The American Telemedicine Association has fired off a letter to the FCC urging that more money be spent on expanding telecommunications services

Jul 20 2011

NorthJersey.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A local doctor has developed a chip that can be implanted in artificial knees, hips or other prosthetics that will relay medical information about the patient.

Jul 15 2011

2011 Potpourri XXVII

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

A mid-summer’s evening (or weekend) Potpourri, but no heated discussion here, just soothing nuggets of knowledge, including use and misuse of PCI, how to measure blood pressure, CMS and telemedicine, preventing falls, copying and pasting EHR notes, and physicians attitude to work and compensation.

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Jul 05 2011

eHealthNews

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

eHealthNews: Telemedicine, An Essential Technology for Performed Healthcare

Jul 01 2011

2011 Potpourri XXVI

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Fireworks galore for the Fourth of July Potpourri, including dynamite excerpts on the effects of parent caregiving on caregivers’ financial status; health insurance exchanges; physician compensation; provider performance data gathering and use; hospital market concentration; use of HIT in nursing homes and teen use of health websites.

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Jun 23 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Phoenix-based Banner Health is in the midst of rolling out a huge telemedicine program to every critical care hospital in its seven-state hospital system.

Jun 23 2011

amednews.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Telemedicine’s expansion a virtual certainty, paper says – Use of telehealth solutions are expected to grow in light of changes in the health care landscape.

Jun 10 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

What Essentia is doing with disease management and its telemedicine scaling program has attracted the attention of the Healthcare Innovations Exchange, part of the AHRQ

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