Value Proposition / ROI

The Regenstrief Institute, recognized as a healthcare IT leader, has won a contract to help the Social Security Administration and Indiana healthcare providers make disability case determinations faster and better.

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has received the 4th Annual ECRI Institute Health Devices Achievement Award for an innovative patient monitoring project that uses the Masimo SET pulse oximetry and Masimo Patient SafetyNet remote monitoring and clinician notification system.

A pilot project at the Cleveland Clinic has found that patients with chronic diseases manage them more effectively when they use medical devices to regularly send health information to physicians.

Montreal's McGill University Health Centre is developing a new Web tool that, among other things, will deliver medication reminders to patients via their iPhones and Blackberrys. The secure Internet program, known as Unani.ca, allows anyone to maintain a list of personal health conditions, medications, allergies and family medical history.

BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and Blue Shield of Northeastern New York plan to cover telehealth services for patients who connect with healthcare providers from home or work via the American Well Online Care platform.

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse delivered the opening keynote address at HIMSS10 on Monday morning. His core message: It is critical that healthcare providers embrace and make full use of the technological advances of the 21st century--especially wireless communication technology.

Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania has seen significant results since it began an intravenous interoperability pilot study with Cerner in July 2008. Auto programming supported with bar code technology is generating a large amount of electronic data on patients, clinicians, drugs and warnings to analyze for quality improvement, according to a Health Data Management report. And analysis of the data is exposing data and pump programming practices that previously were concealed within the technology or by a lack of end-user awareness.

The California Department of Corrections used telemedicine to save the state $13 million last year, largely by reducing transportation and security costs.