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Consumers Connect Health Monitors to Online Sites
Consumers are logging on to Web Sites with heart and blood monitors and sleep trackers to understand and improve their health.
Growing numbers of health-conscious consumers are connecting themselves to Web-based health services. They are using new monitoring devices and...
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Healthcare Provider Prescribes Integrated Portal to Boost Productivity, Quality of Care
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A decade ago, St. Joseph Health System began operating a web portal for physicians called Physician Connect. The move gave the physicians of the U.S.$4.1-billion-a-year, 14-facility, nonprofit organization unprecedented access to their daily patient lists and to vital...
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Is eHealth enough to satisfy patients’ desire for self-service?
Patients wanting more self-service options for their healthcare. - Accenture survey show that patients embrace technology, but still want face-time with doctors.
Most (90 percent) patients surveyed want to embrace eHealth self-service options, such as access to health information, scheduling...
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Accountable care: Redefining value and success in healthcare
Delivering value-based, integrated care for better outcome.
Today’s healthcare industry is undergoing a major change: The transformation to an accountable care model. Governmental, payer and industry bodies have all proposed healthcare quality measures designed to improve patient outcomes. Governments, payers...
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Case Study – Health Provider Saves $4 Million, Improves Communications, by Moving Email to Cloud
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The goal was to provide the best communications medium in any given situation, with minimal integration effort and maximum ease of use. “Prompt, unambiguous communication is critical in healthcare,” says Rance Clouser, Director of ERP and UC Applications at...
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Making the Case for Connected Health
Accenture study explores the future of integrated healthcare delivery Nations around the world are making significant efforts to adopt healthcare information technology as a path toward “connected health.”
The goals are straightforward enough –higher quality, more accessible and cost-effective healthcare...
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Joining forces for the future
The third annual World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany, brought together decision-makers and scientists from around the world to address some of today’s most pressing issues.
For the third time, healthcare decision-makers and renowned healthcare scientists from across the globe...
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