Featured Report: IMS Research report estimated that telehealth would grow to reach 1.8 million patients by 2017

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iHealthBeat
Survey Finds Long-Term Care Facilities Adopt EHRs, but Lag in HIE
Dec,13,2013
by+Staff
While many long-term care providers in the U.S. have adopted electronic health records and provided patients with Internet access, few facilities are participating in health information exchange with outside providers, according to a recent survey, Government Health IT reports.
The survey -- which was conducted by long-term care provider association LeadingAge and investment bank Ziegler -- polled the country's 94 largest not-for-profit senior living center networks (Brino, Government Health IT, 12/12).
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Modern Healthcare
No longer a novelty, medical apps are increasingly valuable to clinicians and patients
Dec,14,2013
by:+Joseph Conn
2013 was a big year for the adoption of mobile medical applications by clinicians and consumers. It also saw the beginning of convergence between devices and apps used by clinicians and those used by consumers.
Still, industry experts say the widespread use of mobile apps and devices that are fully integrated into a comprehensive healthcare and wellness information system remains a work in progress. Authoritative curation of mobile apps is needed to ease physician uncertainty about adopting apps more widely for clinical use, some experts say. And much more progress is needed in developing and disseminating apps that enable healthcare providers to help patients manage their medical conditions.
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Fierce Health IT
Inpatient CPOE, med reconciliation results disappointing
Dec,13,2013
by:+Susan D. Hall
Computerizing prescription order entry and medication reconciliation doesn't necessarily improve those processes as much as we'd like to think, according to two presentations at the midyear meeting of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Ramadas Balasubramanian of the Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville in Charlotte, N.C., and colleagues reported the facility experienced a 29.2 percent increase in medication dispensation errors with implementation of a CPOE system.
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Med City News
Telehealth startup Doctor on Demand raises $3M in seed funding
Dec,12,2013
by:+ Stephanie Baum
A healthcare startup that is using mobile phones and iPads to provide video access to physicians has raised $3 million in seed funding, according to a company statement. Doctor on Demand is one of a group of telehealth companies trying to help address non-emergency questions about illnesses and symptoms to reduce the need for in-patient visits and the flow of people going to emergency rooms.
It also helps address the gap between the number of physicians and nurses and the number of people entering the healthcare system as a result of Obamacare. Earlier this year an IMS Research report estimated that telehealth would grow to reach 1.8 million patients by 2017.
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