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Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Reuters
The finding comes as a surprise to some researchers who have seen benefits of text message reminders for everything from keeping kids inhaling their asthma medicine to sunbathers applying sunscreen. "We've been surprised at how big a factor reminders can be," Dr. Joseph Kvedar, who is director for The Center of Connected Health in Boston and was not involved in the new study, told Reuters Health. "And it's so simple."
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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MobiHealthNews
Dr. Joseph Kvedar, the head of the Center for Connected Health, outlined three “wildcards” that face the connected health industry over the next ten years.
Monday, August 16, 2010
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Home Care Technology Report
"This will have a significant influence on the relationship between home health care providers and their referring physicians," Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health, told HCTR this week. "When they are approached by a representative from a home care agency that promises improved outcomes and reduced utilization as a result of its home telehealth program, physician skepticism can now be met with the response that 'the AMA is behind it.'"
Monday, August 2, 2010
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All Fitness News
With reminder text messages or more customised two-way interactions, US researchers are trying to harness the power of mobile phones to help fight chronic diseases.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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HealthImaging.com
Mobile healthcare technology is delivering decision support right now, but it’s not all for clinicians, according to panelists at the World Congress second annual leadership summit on mHealth in Boston last week. "So much of what we’ve learned from using connected health is that success is about drawing patients into their care and about allowing patients to care for themselves,” said Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director of the Center for Connected Health.
Friday, July 30, 2010
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PCWorld
Health-care providers looking to implement a mobile strategy need to understand the strong bond people have with their smartphones, said panelists Friday at the World Congress' Summit on mHealth in Boston. Robert Havasy, an analyst with Partners Healthcare System's Center for Connected Health, also discussed the importance of personalization in mobile health.
Monday, July 19, 2010
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CNN
The Center for Connected Health's medication adherence study with Vitality GlowCaps was recently featured on CNN. The ongoing study measured a 27% higher rate of medication adherence in patients using Internet connected medication packaging and feedback services compared to controls.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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The Associated Press
What if my blood sugar's too high today? Is it time for my blood pressure pill? With nagging text messages or more customized two-way interactions, researchers are trying to harness the power of cell phones to help fight chronic diseases.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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The News Journal
While the apps market is crowded with games, music, videos and other entertainment options, there are a growing number of interactive health applications that aim to help consumers better manage the way they eat, exercise, take their medicine and deal with stress.
Monday, July 5, 2010
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The Boston Globe
Connectivity is important not just for implantable medical devices. Partners HealthCare’s Center for Connected Health uses simpler tools such as blood pressure cuffs to monitor health of patients at home and keep them in contact with their caregivers. The information is transmitted over the patient’s telephone, using an old-fashioned modem, the center’s director, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, said. The idea is to make the system both easy and affordable, while relying on secure, encrypted connections to ensure privacy.
Monday, June 28, 2010
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eWEEK
Experimental electronic pill bottle caps prompted up to 99 percent of the participants of a study to stay on their medication schedules, says the Center for Connected Health. The pill bottle covers send wireless signals that activate a glowing light, a tune, automated calls, text messages or e-mails to notify patients that it's time to take their medication.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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Mass High Tech
Using cloud computing in the health information technology sector makes sense from a cost basis, but it could take years for health-care providers and patients to develop solid confidence in the security of patient data in cloud environments.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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InformationWeek
Use of a wireless reminder instrument led to a 27% higher rate of patients taking their medications on time. The study, conducted by the Center for Connected Health, assessed the impact of the GlowCap developed by Vitality, a Boston-based telehealth company. The GlowCap is a standard-size pill-bottle cap that alerts patients using light and sound, is Wi-Fi enabled, and links to the Internet.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Center for Connected Health
The Center for Connected Health announced today encouraging initial findings from a medication adherence study, using a wireless electronic pill bottle to remind patients with high blood pressure to take their medication. The ongoing study measured a 27% higher rate of medication adherence in patients using Internet connected medication packaging and feedback services compared to controls.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Healthcare IT News
A medication adherence study conducted by the Center for Connected Health yielded encouraging initial findings. The study used a wireless electronic pill bottle to remind patients with high blood pressure to take their medication.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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mobihealthnews
The Center for Connected Health announced that Vitality’s GlowCap service raised medication adherence rates 27 percent for a group of hypertensive patients. The group using GlowCaps achieved 98 percent adherence, while another group using GlowCaps plus financial incentives hit 99 percent adherence.
Friday, June 18, 2010
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The Irish Times
Sensor technology that can remotely monitor people with chronic illnesses and allow them to stay at home for longer could significantly ease the burden of an ageing population on the healthcare system, said Dr. Joe Kvedar this week at the second European Connected Health Summit in Belfast.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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PR Newswire
Healthrageous, Inc., a personalized health technology company, announced today that it has completed a $6 million Series A financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners along with investment partners Egan Managed Capital and Long River Ventures. The company is based on technologies developed at the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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Xconomy
Healthrageous (previously called HopSkipConnect) is a spinout of Partners Center for Connected Health, the unit of Partners HealthCare System in Boston that studies the use of technologies like text messages and the Internet to keep people healthy outside of hospitals and other traditional clinical settings. The startup’s software is designed to automatically give people personalized advice to help them reach health goals such as losing weight, lowering blood pressure, or controlling their diabetes.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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Boston Business Journal
The Center for Connected Health spinoff has paperwork pending to incorporate as Healthrageous Inc. It closed a $6 million Series A round, the company reported in a regulatory filing late Tuesday — $1 million more than the target for the round disclosed by Partners’ Center for Connected Health director Joe Kvedar in April.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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mobihealthnews
Partners Healthcare spinoff HopSkipConnect (based partially on the Partners blood pressure program SmartBeat) has renamed to Healthrageous and announced a $6 million first round of investment.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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Mass High Tech
The Center for Connected Health spinoff has paperwork pending to incorporate as Healthrageous Inc. It closed a $6 million Series A round, the company reported in a regulatory filing late Tuesday — $1 million more than the target for the round disclosed by Partners’ Center for Connected Health director Joe Kvedar in April.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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FiercePracticeManagement.
Perhaps health reform--and physicians' need to figure out how to squeeze 32 million newly insured patients between the 15 to 30 patients they already see, diagnose, treat, chart, code and haggle over with insurers every day--will help move things along. So far, telemedicine has been a frequently cited strategy, among others, to work around that pesky 24-hour limit to a given doctor's day.
Monday, June 7, 2010
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Mass High Tech
Partners HealthCare’s Center for Connected Health has completed research that it says shows that remote online visits produced the clinical outcomes that were the equivalent of conventional office care.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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Center for Connected Health
A recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health, found that remote online visits with dermatologists, or e-visits, achieved equivalent clinical outcomes for acne patients. Data further revealed that this model of care delivery was popular with participating doctors and patients, ranking e-visits as convenient and time-saving. This study was published in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology (Volume 146, No. 4, April 2010).
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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mobihealthnews
“Healthy behavior. Everyone. Everyday. Everyway.” That’s the ambitious mantra that the Center for Connected Health’s new launch, HopSkipConnect has adopted as its company’s mandate, according to CEO Rick Lee during a presentation at the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance event in La Jolla, California.
Friday, May 7, 2010
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Boston Business Journal
iRobot Corp. is offering the first public details about a new generation of robots under development to help deliver home health care. Dr. Joe Kvedar of the Center for Connected Health weighs in with his thoughts.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Mass High Tech
Insurers and doctors have had their say on Capitol Hill. But Dr. Joe Kvedar wants to put another interest group in the driver’s seat of health-care reform: IT executives and entrepreneurs.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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InformationWeek
Our Connected Pediatric Critical Care program, which lets on-call attending physicians examine patients from their homes and communicate with on-site pediatric ICU staff using real-time videoconferencing and robotic gear, is featured in this story.
Monday, April 26, 2010
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The Boston Globe
This study conducted by the Center for Connected Health evaluated whether delivering acne follow-up care via a remote online visit (e-visit) platform produces equivalent clinical outcomes to office care.
Monday, April 19, 2010
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ScienceDaily
Follow-up visits conducted via a secure Web site may result in similar clinical outcomes as in-person visits among patients with acne, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology.
Monday, April 12, 2010
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For The Record
The ubiquitous iPhone is dazzling healthcare observers with its versatility, adaptability, and ease of use.
Friday, April 9, 2010
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California HealthCare Foundation
The recent adoption and use of smartphones by both consumers and providers of health care are the focus of this timely report by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn.
Monday, March 29, 2010
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mobihealthnews
Pew Internet Research recently published a report that notes that for patients with two chronic illnesses, 52 percent are Internet users. Another Pew study found that 27 percent of patients over 65 years old define themselves as “e-patients”. The director of the Center for Connected Health, Joseph Kvedar, points to the latest Pew Research in the first post of his new Connected Health (cHealth) Blog.
Friday, March 19, 2010
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Mass High Tech
Philips Healthcare's Lifeline is expanding into home monitoring, including a telehealth service to monitor patients with congestive heart failure.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Xconomy
It’s tough to find an excuse for forgetting to take your medications nowadays. And if you’re thinking of a good excuse right now, chances are that companies and technologists in the Boston area have already addressed it with an information technology invention.
Monday, March 8, 2010
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HealthLeaders Media
The devices, treatments, and procedures that will change the delivery—and the business—of healthcare.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Times Online
Smartphones will soon be diagnosing illness as well as advising on cures. Will we all become iPho-chondriacs?
Monday, March 1, 2010
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ACP Internist
The goal of remote monitoring is to catch problems early and improve patient self-management in order to reduce the need for office visits and hospitalizations. But the technology has to overcome some hurdles to widespread implementation.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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Healthcare IT News
Dr. Joe Kvedar wrote this piece for HealthCare IT News: "My sense, having been involved in the implementation of this and other similar Connected Health programs is that they go through predictable adoption phases. Anyone out there who is starting the journey on Connected Health implementation will probably find comfort and solace in knowing a bit about these phases."
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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InformationWeek
A new telemedicine program at Massachusetts General Hospital is helping doctors manage the care of critically ill children around the clock. The new Connected Pediatric Critical Care program enables on-call attending physicians from their homes examine patient and communicate with on-site pediatric ICU staff using real-time video conferencing and robotic gear.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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mobihealthnews
It’s a simple question: Do mobile health tools require a doctor’s prescription? Or will the main driver for mHealth services bubble up from consumers and patients largely without care providers weighing in?
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Healthcare IT News
Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program. MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) and the Center for Connected Health teamed up to launched the new program.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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Center for Connected Health
A new, pioneering home-to-hospital program, Connected Pediatric Critical Care, features real-time video communication, enabling the on-call attending physician, when at home, to personally examine the patient and communicate directly with the PICU staff, other specialists and even the child’s parents. This innovative program was launched by MassGeneral Hospital for Children and the Center for Connected Health.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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mobihealthnews
Healthcare analysts, including the Center's Rob Havasy, react to Apple's new iPad and how it may effect the healthcare industry.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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HealthLeaders Media
Massachusetts health leaders, include Dr. Joe Kvedar, react with their thoughts on how the election will change healthcare reform efforts.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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mobihealthnews
Rob Havasy, a business analyst at the Boston-based Center for Connected Health, penned a thoughtful column on the state of the mHealth market. Havasy’s central point is that mobile health solutions need to be “meaningful” and “available” to all patients.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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A Healthy Piece of My Mind Blog
There is no magic bullet or quick fix that will allow Americans to participate more fully in their health and wellness or have unimpeded access to their medical data. Instead we chip away at expanding consumer empowerment.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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Center for Connected Health
SmartBeat, an innovative new benefits program to help employees self-manage high blood pressure, was recognized as one of New England's Best Benefits Practices of 2009 by the New England Employee Benefits Council. SmartBeat was developed by the Center for Connected Health, in collaboration with EMC Corporation, the first company to participate in the program. Of the 400 participants in the program, 59% showed a reduction in blood pressure.