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- Banner Home Care Using Telehealth to Reduce Readmissions
- Patients at D.C. Hospital Use PHR to Manage Diabetes
- 5 Twitter stars you don't know
| Banner Home Care Using Telehealth to Reduce Readmissions Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:56 AM PDT Banner Home Care , part of Banner Heart Hospital (Mesa, Ariz.), has partnered with Philips (Netherlands) to provide telehealth services to patients with heart failure and other chronic diseases in order to reduce its readmission rate. Banner Home Care has provided telemonitoring to more than 550 patients in the past three years, and achieved a readmission rate of 3.8 percent for patients on telehealth, versus a national readmission rate of 29 percent for Medicare-certified home health agencies, says the company. Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, non-profit healthcare systems in the country. The system owns or manages 22 acute-care hospitals, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and other services including family clinics, home care and hospice services, and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in seven states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. |
| Patients at D.C. Hospital Use PHR to Manage Diabetes Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:52 AM PDT Diabetic patients at Howard University Hospital (Washington, D.C.) have adopted an online personal health record (PHR) from NoMoreClipboard.com (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and are actively using it to communicate with their doctors and manage their disease, says the company. Howard University’s Diabetes Treatment Center integrated the hospital’s EMR with the PHR to manage diabetes treatment online as part of an initiative offering diabetes testing and treatment to underserved residents in the five city wards with the highest incidence of the disease. Doctors and technicians from the Diabetes Treatment Center, which is funded by a DOH grant, travel to various locations via a mobile unit to screen and test residents for the disease. All encounters on the mobile unit are then documented in an EMR system, and patients are offered a free PHR from NoMoreClipboard.com, it says. |
| 5 Twitter stars you don't know Posted: 26 Oct 2009 07:55 AM PDT Heather Armstrong, John Dickerson and Adventure Girl are not famous, but each has more than 1.2 million Twitter followers. To thrive on Twitter, celebrity isn't always enough. You must have something to say. |
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