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Senior care tech provider Healthsense is partnering with insurance giant Humana in a national pilot program that aims to improve the health of older Americans who live in their own homes. Through Humana’s Humana Cares / Senior Bridge, the insurance provider identified 100 individuals under its Medicare Advantage coverage to participate in the yearlong pilot. Healthsense is providing its remote monitoring technology platform eNeighbor to each of the individuals in the program in an effort to gather data and improve outcomes for home-based senior users.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. & MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, and Healthsense a leading provider of aging services technologies, announced they have completed member enrollment in a groundbreaking remote monitoring pilot program. The pilot will measure the impact in-home sensors and remote monitoring technology have on improving health outcomes and reducing frailty and fall-related hospital admissions for Medicare members with chronic health conditions.

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Humana Inc.,one of the nation's leading health and well-being companies, and Healthsense, a leading provider of aging services technologies, announced they have completed member enrollment in a groundbreaking remote monitoring pilot program. The pilot will measure the impact in-home sensors and remote monitoring technology have on improving health outcomes and reducing frailty and fall-related hospital admissions for Medicare members with chronic health conditions.

Health IT Analytics»

Cardiologist Eric Topol says he knew medicine had reached a turning point when patients started emailing him the results of do-it-yourself electrocardiograms. With the help of a smartphone, a software application and a portable device that reads a person's heart rhythm, anyone can get an instant EKG reading on their phone screen.

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SummaCare, part of Akron, OH, -based Summa Health System, has selected Health Language solutions from Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global solutions provider for the healthcare industry. The leverage of LEAP I-10 and Provider Friendly Terminologies applications will assist the health insurance company in transitioning to ICD-10.

Health IT Outcomes»

Keeping up with the latest medical treatments and research is a herculean task for most doctors. Fortunately, online clinical decision support resources have made the task feasible by providing an external repository of knowledge that you can tap into when needed. Boston-based UpToDate, which is used in 90 percent of academic medical centres, employs 50 physician editors and 5,000 external contributors to scour sources to synthesize the best medical knowledge in their database, and their software can run on any Web-enabled device or standalone.

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Dr. Stephen Beck discusses how HL7 Infobutton technology helps improve outcomes, accelerate clinician adoption of CDS and EHR technologies at Catholic Health Partners.

Clinical decision support (CDS) resources such as evidence-based reference content, order sets, care plans, medication alerting systems, and surveillance technology have been identified as key elements to successfully achieving the aggressive quality goals laid out in federal initiatives. However, leading industry research groups, including KLAS and The Advisory Board, report that widespread CDS use is hampered by electronic health record (EHR) integration challenges.

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In a healthcare world in which amazing things are increasingly possible — surgery through just a few tiny incisions, successful replacements of entire organs, treatment of once-fatal infections — sepsis is still a problem.

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Minneapolis, MN — January 14, 2014— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its UpToDate^® and Lexicomp^® solutions received the highest scores for impact on patient care in their respective categories in KLAS’ report on the clinical decision support solutions market. Clinical Decision Support 2013: Sizing Up Point-of-Care Reference Tools[i] also ranked the solutions as best at helping clinicians stay current with best practices.

MADISON, Wis. – (Jan. 9, 2014) – Amphion Medical Solutions, a leading provider of advanced transcription and coding solutions and services, announced today the launch of Amphion University, a comprehensive online ICD-10 training program featuring courses designed and led by the company’s AHIMA-approved instructors. To maximize ICD-10 comprehension, Amphion U offers a customizable curriculum of individual modules and complete training packages, as well as terminology manuals, codebooks and a robust library of practice records coded by Amphion’s ICD-10 experts.

Health Level Seven (HL7), a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards development organization with more than 2,300 members, is continually developing a framework and standards for the information exchange, integration, sharing and retrieval to improve clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services.

Healthcare Informatics»

Let's face it. For the vast majority of people, it takes courage to speak up and admit a lack of clarity or understanding when encountering new information. It's certainly no different for patients. In healthcare settings, the gap between communication and understanding is compounded by a complex medical system and lack of appropriate tools to support both education and comprehension of health information.

Advance Healthcare Network»

Complying with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)/Joint Commission mandate to monitor and report core measures is a complex, time-consuming process  carrying significant implications for hospitals failing at the task. As the stakes get higher, so too does the level of difficulty involved in maintaining compliant reporting processes.

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Hudson, OH —(December 19, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the addition to its referential drug information resources, Lexicomp^® Online™ and Facts & Comparisons^® eAnswers, of information on the European vaccine to fight a meningitis B outbreak. The rapid response by the Wolters Kluwer Health reference content team demonstrates the speed and proficiency with which the resources are updated to keep clinicians current in a rapidly evolving drug information environment.