patient health

Nemours Children's Clinic in Jacksonville, FL is kicking off a pilot program using remote monitoring technology to keep track of pediatric patient health. This type of preventative care system saves young patients stressful trips to the clinic and prevents small problems from growing into larger health concerns. "There's a lot of evidence that good case management or disease management keeps people out of hospitals, out of crisis situations," notes Lori Bilello, executive director of the …

Siemens and Mount Sinai Medical Center said they will collaborate on the Patient Health Smart Card initiative in the New York area. The project builds on a successful pilot at Elmhurst Hospital. In the initiative's first phase of 100,000 patient smart cards will be distributed to area hospitals. The cards, which are issued with a patient's photo on their front, can store medical information, including allergy history, current medications and laboratory results.

- read this press release from Siemens

Doctors in the New York Presbyterian Hospital system will use a new artificial intelligence-based database system which recommends suggested courses of treatment based on previous patient outcomes. Unlike many CPOE systems, which generally rely on rules-based decision making, the New York Presbyterian system, called the Patient Health Monitor Project, uses an inferencing algorithm designed by a resident physician. Story

A consortium of more than 50 major insurers, healthcare companies and technology players will develop standards to make access to patient health insurance information easier. The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) hopes to have a preliminary set of information-exchange rules in place as early as next year, The Wall Street Journal reports. The new procedures would allow doctors and medical centers much easier access to information which currently is often difficult …

Despite remarkably little uptake of consumer health records thus far, there's another player in the patient health record game. iHealthRecord officially launched yesterday, providing users with one-click access to a Web-based system for documenting their medical history. Access is free for patients; physicians and providers are expected to pay for the service.

iHealthRecord is from software company Medem, which has big-name backing with the support of the American Medical …