Remote Monitoring Top Content

  1. mHealth Leads To Better At-Home Monitoring 12/2/2014

    When patients leave the hospital and head home, they don’t take their doctors with them. But mHealth may be the solution to keeping chronically ill patients in constant contact with their physicians. By Katie Wike, contributing writer

  2. Top 10 Health IT Trends 2015 11/21/2014

    Our annual reader survey may have identified the top 10 health IT trends for the coming year, but three initiatives clearly rank above the rest when it comes to provider mindshare.

  3. Real Time ADT Alerts Improve NICU Care 11/13/2014

    Real time alerts are improving care and reducing readmissions for the hospitals smallest patients. By Katie Wike, contributing writer

  4. A Call For Better Health IT 10/29/2014

    Whether technology played a part in Duncan’s Ebola misdiagnosis may still be in question, but what can no longer be ignored is the fact that health IT has to get better.

  5. 2014 Health IT Change Agents 10/28/2014

    These influential individuals and organizations are leading the charge for positive change in health IT.

  6. Chronic Disease Management Grows mHealth 10/27/2014

    The mHealth market is poised to grow to $41 billion by 2020 and experts credit the expected growth to chronic disease management and sensor technology. By Katie Wike, contributing writer

  7. Electronic Patient Surveillance Cuts Mortality Rate 15% 9/30/2014

    The use of an electronic physiological surveillance system cut the mortality rate at two U.K. hospitals by 15 percent in just one year. By Katie Wike, contributing writer

  8. Reducing Readmissions With Remote Monitoring 9/29/2014

    By deploying remote monitoring technology to patients with congestive heart failure, VNA Rockford has cut its hospital readmissions by nearly one-third.

  9. Community Hospitals: What’s Your Health IT Move? 9/24/2014

    According to our fourth annual Community Hospital Health IT Survey, MU is creating a new breed of unique challenges for small, rural hospitals — challenges that may require drastic changes to address.

  10. Patient Monitoring Implants Linked To Better Outcomes 8/22/2014

    A study of patients with chronic heart failure has found that implantable heart rhythm devices which relay information to doctors improved patients’ overall health outcomes. By Katie Wike, contributing writer