Disease Management

Electronic health records have great potential to help clinicians better manage patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma and obesity. Disease management tools include identification of at-risk patients, lab and results alerts, and condition-specific registries.

Nurses Innovate to Tackle the Dangers of Discharge

Gary Baldwin | Mar 01

Cullman Regional Medical Center caregivers take top honors for using iPods and intelligence to connect with patients.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Decision Support

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Rooting Out Readmissions

Greg Gillespie | Mar 01

Hospitals bring more I.T. to bear while looking for the underlying reasons why patients come back.

Hospitals

Chronic Care

Decision Support

Payers

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Policy & Regulation

HIT Vendors Ready to Unveil New Wares at HIMSS13

Joseph Goedert | Feb 28

Many health information technology vendors are announcing this week the new products and services they will be highlighting at HIMSS13 in New Orleans:

Electronic Data Interchange

Vendor News

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Group Practices

Hospitals

Consumer Health

Health Info Exchange

Systems Integration

Employers Boosting Use of Wellness Incentives

Joseph Goedert | Feb 27

A survey of 120 larger employers finds they expect to pay an average of $521 per employee on wellness-based incentives during 2013.

Payers

Cerner to Acquire PureWellness in Population Health Play

Joseph Goedert | Feb 26

Cerner Corp. will acquire PureWellness, vendor of an online platform of tools, information and services to support population health management. Terms of the deal, expected to close in March, were not announced.

Consumer Health

EHR

Vendor News

Hospitals

Payers

Chronic Care