Tool Gauges Remote Patient Monitoring Technology's ROI

Tuesday, June 11, 2013  |  iHealthBeat

The Center for Connected Health and the Center for Technology and Aging have developed in collaboration with the California HealthCare Foundation a tool that gauges the return on investment for technology that remotely monitors heart disease patients.

 
 

New tool measures ROI for remote monitoring

Tuesday, June 11, 2013  |  FierceHealthIT

A new web-based tool unveiled this week allows providers to determine their return on investment for remote patient monitoring technologies. The tool--co-developed by the Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health in Boston and the Oakland, Calif.-based Center for Technology and Aging--also helps providers to determine future ROI, which enables rollouts of remote monitoring tools to be more measured and strategic.

 
 

New Web-based ROI Tool Demonstrates Return on Investment

Tuesday, June 11, 2013  |  mHIMSS

The Center for Connected Health (CCH) and the Center for Technology and Aging (CTA) have collaborated on the development of a tool for analyzing the Return on Investment (ROI) for remote patient monitoring technologies, enabling healthcare providers to evaluate the financial benefit of these technologies for patients with chronic heart disease.

 
 

Remote Patient Monitoring Programs: Are They Worth The Investment?

Tuesday, June 11, 2013  |  mHealthWatch

Is the ROI for remote patient monitoring programs really worth all the effort? A new tool is entering the healthcare space in hopes of providing a more complete and comprehensive answer to this complex, multifaceted question.

 
 

New Web-based ROI Tool Demonstrates Return on Investment of Remote Patient Monitoring Programs

Monday, June 10, 2013  |  Center for Connected Health

The Center for Connected Health and the Center for Technology and Aging have collaborated on the development of a tool for analyzing the Return on Investment for remote patient monitoring technologies, enabling healthcare providers to evaluate the financial benefit of these technologies for patients with chronic heart disease.

 
 

New tool tracks remote monitoring ROI

Monday, June 10, 2013  |  Healthcare IT News

The Center for Connected Health and the Center for Technology and Aging have launched a new tool to gauge the return on investment for remote patient monitoring technologies for patients with heart disease.

 
 

Here are 10 people to follow on Twitter who get patient engagement

Wednesday, June 5, 2013  |  MedCity News

If you are interested in the national debate about how providers, payers, pharmaceutical companies and startups are working to improve adherence and outcomes through patient engagement, here are 10 people to follow on Twitter, including Dr. Joseph Kvedar (@jkvedar), Director of the Center for Connected Health.

 
 

Pioneering Connected Health Principles - Video

Wednesday, June 5, 2013  |  Penn LDI

A decade ago when his team began research into how digital communications technologies could be used to improve health care delivery, Joseph Kvedar, MD, expected to prove that new kinds of data streams to clinicians would be the key. To his surprise, he found that data streams to patients was what actually made the crucial difference. Director of Partners HealthCare's Center for Connected Health and the man who coined the now widely-used term "connected health," Kvedar was the keynote speaker at the Penn Medicine Connected Health Symposium. This is his complete 29-minute address.

 
 

Wireless Connectivity Can Help Patients Become Their Own Doctors

Thursday, May 30, 2013  |  Internet Evolution

Patients can become their own doctors, at least in preventing and managing chronic conditions, with the aid of wireless technologies, according to Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare. This trend toward sophisticated self-treatment is driven by three trends, Kvedar said, speaking at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance 8th Annual Convergence Summit in San Diego this week.

 
 

WLSA's Convergence Summit: Putting the "fun" back into healthcare

Thursday, May 30, 2013  |  mHIMSS

Kvedar – whose Connected Health Symposium each fall mirrors the convergence summit in that it brings in concepts outside the norm to discuss digital health – pointed out that the influx of mobile health monitoring devices, "big data" and unique messaging is enabling more and more consumers to, in essence, be their own doctor.

 
 

San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Nucelis, Evoke, PharmAkea & More

Thursday, May 30, 2013  |  Xconomy

The Eighth Annual Wireless-Life Sciences Convergence Summit kicked off in downtown San Diego with a featured talk by Joseph Kvedar, director of the Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health in Boston.

 
 

Live from WLSA’s 2013 Convergence Summit: Day 1

Wednesday, May 29, 2013  |  mHealth Zone

Listen to an interview with Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Founder and Director at Center for Connected Health, and Dr. Harry Greenspun, Senior Advisor of Health Care Transformation and Technology at Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. The interviews were recorded at the WLSA 2013 Convergence Summit.

 
 

How to Engage Consumers in Healthcare

Tuesday, May 28, 2013  |  Connected World Magazine

Healthcare is a major market for M2M technology, and more frequently these days healthcare solutions are targeting the consumer. Bringing connected healthcare to the consumer requires special strategies, which will be discussed during a panel at the 2013 Connected World Conference titled “Engaging Consumers in Healthcare.” Moderated by Dr. Kamal Jethwani with the Partners Center for Connected Health, the panel will explore the many ways consumers today are interacting with connected health solutions, such as apps, home health systems, and clinical platforms.

 
 

Health Care Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Friday, May 24, 2013  |  Listly

Useful list of health care social media influencers on Twitter, including Dr. Joe Kvedar (@jkvedar).

 
 

Panel: NFC Has Role to Play in Health and Fitness Applications; Though It’s Not for All Uses

Thursday, May 23, 2013  |  NFC Times

Dr. Kamal Jethwani, leader of the research and program evaluation initiatives at the Center for Connected Health, believes that NFC does have a potential role to play in gathering wellness data from patients. He cited portability, flexibility, configurability and secure transmission as assets of NFC technology.

 
 

Podcast with Dr. Joe Kvedar

Thursday, May 16, 2013  |  World Congress

Listen to a podcast with Dr. Joe Kvedar, Director of the Center for Connected Health, where he discusses how accountable care organizations are promoting the implementation of more digital solutions to address quality and efficiency.

 
 

Perspectives on Acne: What Twitter Can Teach Health Care Providers

Wednesday, May 15, 2013  |  JAMA Dermatology

Twitter is emerging as a popular forum where people exchange health information. Health providers can not only learn about the perceptions and misperceptions of diseases like acne, but they might also communicate reliable medical information.

 
 

Tweeting the truth about acne

Wednesday, May 15, 2013  |  Internal Medicine News

Health care providers who are comfortable with Twitter can use it to follow acne-related tweets and share reliable medical information and resources, Dr. Kamal Jethwani of the Center for Connected Health, Boston, and his colleagues suggested.

 
 

Health 2.0: Digital Technology in Clinical Care - eBriefing

Friday, May 10, 2013  |  New York Academy of Sciences

This eBriefing details the recent Health 2.0: Digital Technology in Clinical Care conference. The event examined how provider roles and health care delivery are changing, considered emerging questions of equity and ethics, and presented new research and evaluation strategies and digital tools for consumers and providers. Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Director of the Center for Connected Health, was a speaker.

 
 

100 Top Clinics Keeping Their Communities Healthy

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  |  Online FNP

The Center for Connected Health is listed as #18 on this list of the top 100 organizations working to keep communities healthy.

 
 

Health 2.0 Digital Technology in Clinical Care

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  |  AIDS.gov

At the Health 2.0: Digital Technology in Clinical Care conference held last month, speakers offered strategies for using technology to expand health care from clinical settings to a 24/7 partnership enterprise. “We must take health care out of the office and make it a continuous focus in the lives of patients,” said Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Director of the Center for Connected Health.

 
 

Telehealth Opens Doors to Enhance Health Outcomes & Reduce Costs

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  |  Real World Health Care

Telehealth solutions are making significant inroads to reverse high health care expenditures and reduce noncompliance with prescription therapies – issues that especially impact those living with chronic disease. The Center's remote monitoring program for heart failure patients is featured in this article.

 
 

Joseph Kvedar, MD Talks Mobile Health Technology in the Care Setting

Sunday, April 21, 2013  |  HIT Consultant

Dr. Joseph Kvedar discusses how mobile health technology tools can be used in a transformative way.

 
 

How hospitals handled bomb emergency

Wednesday, April 17, 2013  |  PhysBizTech

How Boston hospitals handled Monday's bomb emergency, from the ER to health IT.

 
 

In the wake of a Boston tragedy, mHealth holds promise

Wednesday, April 17, 2013  |  mHIMSS

In today's rapid response world, the smartphone is more than just a communications device. It's fast becoming a medical device.

 
 

How Your Own Laptop or Smartphone Can Wreak Havoc at Work

Wednesday, April 3, 2013  |  Medscape

"The idea of mobility extending to clinical decision-making is quite powerful" says Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Director of the Center for Connected Health. Although such innovative apps offer convenience and mobility, Kvedar emphasizes the need for security as well.

 
 

UCSF Heart Disease Study To Use Mobile Apps

Friday, March 29, 2013  |  InformationWeek Healthcare

Big data trial will follow up to 1 million patients, who will use smartphones to transmit blood pressure and other data several times a day. "It's wonderful to see mainstream medicine paying this much attention to patient-derived data that doesn't come from a test in the office or the hospital," said Joseph Kvedar, director of the Center for Connected Health.

 
 

Big Data and M2M in Healthcare: Who’s Responsible?

Wednesday, March 20, 2013  |  Connected World Magazine

Who shares the burden of the responsibility: provider or patient? It is a question recently posed to Dr. Kamal Jethwani, who is with the Center for Connected Health. In his opinion, the future of healthcare requires active collaboration between patients and caregivers, in order to be able to address the challenges of growing healthcare needs, as well as a growing gap in demand and supply of clinicians.

 
 

Is There Such a Thing as an Online Health Lifestyle?

Wednesday, March 20, 2013  |  Information, Communication & Society

Tim Hale, a research fellow at the Center for Connected Health, examines the relationship between social status, Internet access, and health behaviors.

 
 

Health 2.0: Digital Technology in Clinical Care

Monday, March 18, 2013  |  The New York Academy of Sciences

On Friday, March 22, 2013, the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, and the New York Academy of Sciences, will present a one-day conference and simulcast webinar on Health 2.0: Digital Technology in Clinical Care to discuss emerging digital tools and strategies and their impact on healthcare. Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director of the Center for Connected Health, is a speaker.

 
 

TEDMED Great Challenges: Improving Medical Communication-Sound Bites for Twitter

Friday, March 15, 2013  |  Health in 30

In this article, part three of the three-part series on the TEDMED Great Challenges: Improving Medical Communication, you can find thoughts and insights from Joseph Kvedar, MD and Robert Arnold, MD, which are in tweetable form.

 
 

Seniors click in 47th Ward-based cyber-community

Friday, March 8, 2013  |  Chicago Sun-Times

Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and founder and director of the Center for Connected Health in Boston, said the Chicago network reflects today’s shift in elder care and activity to people’s homes and away from a hospital or doctor’s office.

 
 

For ACOs it’s not all about the technology, but sometimes it is

Friday, March 8, 2013  |  MobiHealthNews

Dr. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Center for Connected Health, responded to the WSJ piece, asserting, among other things, that Christensen underestimated both the effect of ACOs being provider-led and the game-changing potential of connected health.

 
 

Engaging Patients: A Challenging New Frontier in Healthcare Delivery

Monday, March 4, 2013  |  Home Care Technology Report

Patient engagement is a goal at the Center for Connected Health. Home Care Technology Report spoke with CCH founder and director Joseph C. Kvedar, MD about a January posting on his blog titled "Engagement is the Next Frontier of Connected Health," in which he described how CCH is approaching this frontier territory. He expanded on his article, offering key pointers for getting patients engaged.

 
 

Tech Caucus to bolster Mass. technology

Thursday, February 28, 2013  |  Boston Business Journal

Massachusetts tech industry leaders are taking part in a special collaborative event with state lawmakers to launch a technology caucus designed to promote innovation and the Massachusetts tech economy. Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Director of the Center for Connected Health, is a participant.

 
 

Clinical Spotlight Episode 4: Joseph Kvedar, MD

Thursday, February 21, 2013  |  Healthcare IT News

Joseph Kvedar, MD, founder and director of the Center for Connected Health, chats with Bernie Monegain, Editor of Healthcare IT News, about the Center's mobile health plans.

 
 

Connected Health Advocate Seeks Wider Audience

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  |  HealthLeaders Media

"Now we're getting to the point where we can sense, collect, monitor almost anything about you, and lots and lots of people are doing it. So if I want to get in the business of tracking my own activity, I pity the person who doesn't have a guide to help them," Kvedar says.

 
 

Director of Center for Connected Health Honored

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  |  Healthcare Informatics

The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium honored Joseph Kvedar, M.D., director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare in Boston, at its annual CIO Dinner held Feb. 12.

 
 

Rob Havasy of Center for Connected Health discusses new HIPAA rule and more

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  |  Heartland TRC

As part of their Telehealth Talk series, Heartland TRC spoke with Rob Havasy from the Center for Connected Health, about HIPAA and what implications the new rules may have on health information technology across the nation.

 
 

Telemed proves cost effective, says the Commonwealth Fund

Friday, February 15, 2013  |  Healthcare Finance News

While the nation’s healthcare costs continue to drain the economy, several forward thinking provider organizations are finding ways to turn the situation around with carefully thought out telemed programs. A recent report from the Commonwealth Fund highlights the cost effective approaches used by three “model citizens.” The report looked at remote patient monitoring programs spearheaded by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Partners Healthcare in Boston and Centura Health at Home in Colorado.

 
 

Joseph Kvedar, MD, receives Leadership Award from Massachusetts Health Data Consortium

Thursday, February 14, 2013  |  Center for Connected Health

Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, founder and director of the Center for Connected Health, was honored by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium at their annual CIO Dinner as a leading figure in the Massachusetts health information technology community.

 
 

TEDMED Great Challenges: Improving Medical Communication

Thursday, February 14, 2013  |  TEDMED

How can we improve medical communication? Dr. Joseph Kvedar tackled that issue as part of TEDMED's great challenges series. Watch the video of the panel discussion here.

 
 

Scaling Telehealth Programs: Lessons from Early Adopters

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  |  The Commonwealth Fund

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) can help improve coordination, improve patients’ experience of care, and reduce hospital admissions and costs. Such technologies remotely collect, track, and transmit health data from a patient’s home to a health care provider and can facilitate communication and help engage patients in the management of their own care. This synthesis brief offers findings from case studies of three early RPM adopters: the Veterans Health Administration, Partners HealthCare, and Centura Health at Home.

 
 

Partners HealthCare: Connecting Heart Failure Patients to Providers Through Remote Monitoring

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  |  The Commonwealth Fund

The Center's home telemonitoring program for patients with heart failure, Connected Cardiac Care, is featured in this case study.