In the News
June 2008
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Partners HealthCare
Two of the Center for Connected Health's programs, Connected Cardiac Care and SmartBeat, are featured in Partners HealthCare's 2007 annual report. See sections "Some employers make an extra effort to control rising health care premiums" and "10% of patients are chronically ill."
Friday, June 20, 2008
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USA Today
Partners Online Specialty Consultations, a service provided by the Center for Connected Health, was featured in this article about patients turning to online services for second opinions from remote specialists.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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Microsoft
The Center for Connected Health was one of 15 Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund request for proposal recipients named today at the second annual Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Conference. The Center will investigate the utilization of HealthVault in a patient-centric diabetes management program.
Friday, May 23, 2008
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iHealthBeat
In an iHealthBeat Special Report, engineering and technology experts discussed how new uses for cell phones are helping to facilitate diagnoses and speed access to patient information. The Center for Connected Health's Doug McClure contributed to the audio report.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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The Boston Globe
As wireless networks proliferate, the cellphone finds a niche next to the stethoscope as a medical tool. Doug McClure discusses how the Center for Connected Health is using mobile phone technology in several research studies.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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The Health Care Blog
Dr. Joseph Kvedar chats with Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog about the EMR initiative at Partners, the wider role of Connected Health within Partners, and the Center's current pilots.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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American Heart Association
A study conducted by the Center for Connected Health and presented at the American Heart Association’s 9th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, reports that a remote monitoring program can improve the condition of heart failure patients who are mobile and may reduce hospital readmissions. Continue reading to learn more and to also watch the video news release.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
The supply-and-demand curve around healthcare services is reaching a breaking point. The demand keeps growing, and the supply remains constant. In this context, primary care physicians are taxed and in high demand. Their natural response to their situation is to demand higher pay for their contribution to the healthcare ecosystem. Is There Any Way Out of this Conundrum?
Read more of Dr. Joseph Kvedar's article in the May/June issue of Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare.
Monday, April 14, 2008
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HME Today
When I started my career 25 years ago, things seemed simple enough. The doctor's job was to take care of the sickest patients when they got sick. We gave patients advice (or often orders) and they listened. As far as we knew, they complied. They didn't ask many questions. Fast forward 25 years—disease management has come on the scene. The concepts of case management, condition management, patient education, patient self-management, and patient engagement are all part of the lexicon of chronic illness management today. Read more of Dr. Joseph Kvedar's article in the April issue of HME Today.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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Healthcare IT News
New data shows that connected health technologies are making it possible for patients to better manage their care. The data comes from 11 research studies conducted by the Center for Connected Health.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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PR Newswire
The Center for Connected Health is presenting data from eleven new research studies conducted at Partners-affiliated hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, reporting patient perceptions of connected health technologies. These study findings, presented at the 13th annual American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference this week, include new perspectives on how patients are feeling empowered to better manage their care, increased satisfaction and improvements in their overall health.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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Disease Management Advisor
Healthcare companies shouldn’t merely populate PHRs with claims information, says Joseph C. Kvedar, MD. They should encourage consumers to take ownership. “The approach I like better is to motivate patients to input their own data, because by enabling patients to collect and better understand their own health data, we can push or pull them into the self-care mode. To succeed, we need patients to be much more aware and involved in the self-management of their health.” This article appears on pgs. 5-6 of the April 2008 edition of the Disease Management Advisor newsletter.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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Private Practice Success
Today's physicians have the opportunity to take a giant leap toward changing the way healthcare is delivered in the United States.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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TeleHealth World
"Pundits have been saying that the adoption of telehealth is 'right around the corner' for decades now. So is anything different now? It is hard to know what it feels like to be caught in the inflection point of an S-shaped adoption curve, but I think that is where we find ourselves in 2008, with respect to telehealth." Read Dr. Joseph Kvedar's article in the premier issue of TeleHealth World - the article appears on pgs 11-12.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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NextGenWeb
Dr. Joseph Kvedar blogs on NextGenWeb with an update on the Center's Diabetes Remote Monitoring program.
Monday, March 3, 2008
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The Boston Globe
In another sign that Second Life is beginning to resemble the first, doctors are stepping into the virtual world to reach patients they might otherwise miss. The relaxation response study is part of a cooperative agreement between the Center for Connected Health and the Benson-Henry Institute of Mind Body Medicine at MGH.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
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MetroWest Daily News
SmartBeat is a health-management program under development by the Center for Connected Health. The study, launched last fall with results expected in mid-2009, will track the health of 400 EMC employees who have hypertension. Half of the participants take their own blood pressure at home and log the stats on a special Web site where they can get feedback about their health and educational information.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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PR Newswire
The Center for Connected Health and EMC Corporation today announced a collaboration to study how EMC's employees diagnosed with hypertension can better manage their health through proactive monitoring and education. EMC is the first company to participate in SmartBeat, designed by the Center for Connected Health, which uses a wireless blood pressure cuff and communicator, and an Internet-based feedback system, to aid employees volunteering for the study to self-manage their high blood pressure.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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The Boston Globe
EMC Corp. and the Center for Connected Health announced a collaboration today that aims to help EMC employees with hypertension to better manage their health through proactive monitoring and education.
Monday, February 4, 2008
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MSNBC
Top medical centers such as Partners' Center for Connected Health offer second-opinion services via the Internet. This practice of consulting from afar using patients' medical records and test results is having a profound effect on how problems are treated.
Friday, February 1, 2008
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Hospitals & Health Networks
With remote monitoring programs proliferating, hospitals hope insurers ante up more funding. Dr. Joseph Kvedar says private insurers are also becoming more receptive to opening up the purse strings. “When we go to them and say we want to do a better job of treating heart failure and want to lower the cost of care, they are interested,” he says.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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Partners HealthCare
High Performance Medicine: Read Partners HealthCare's report to its patients. These op-ed ads are currently appearing in The Boston Globe.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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PrimeNewswire
Center for Connected Health Awarded Best Health and Fitness Web Application. Bridgeline Software, Inc. has designed and developed the recently launched Center for Connected Health website, which was selected as a winner in the category of Health and Fitness for the 2007 MITX Awards.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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Managed Care Outlook
“Continua is about standards-based approaches to consumer telehealth devices,” explains Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, founder and
director of the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare and a participating company of the Continua Health Alliance. “As we continue to move care to the patient — in the patient’s home and in the patient’s workplace — it will be very helpful to be able to point patients to Continua-labeled devices,”
notes Kvedar. (The article is on page 8) C 2008, Aspen Publishers, Managed Care Outlook, Volume 21, Number 1, January 1, 2008. Posted with permission.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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Healthcare IT News
The Center for Connected Health is teaming with the Ambulatory Project of the Future program at Massachusetts General Hospital to assess remote monitoring of patients with type 2 diabetes.