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September 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 are intended to foster electronic prescribing by requiring standards for interoperability and by permitting third parties to offset implementation costs. ...
August 9, 2012 | Journal Article
Mobile phones, and smartphones in particular, have the potential to support chronic disease prevention and management in daily life. For example, mobile health (mHealth) applications can help people manage their diabetes, assist in smoking cessation ...
October 28, 2012 | Journal Article
The Pioneer Portfolio is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s innovation arm, committed to harnessing a pipeline of ideas to serve the social good.
October 3, 2012 | Journal Article
The Medicare Shared Savings Program, created under the Affordable Care Act, will reward participating accountable care organizations that succeed in lowering health care costs while improving performance. Depending on how the organizations perform o ...
September 28, 2012 | Journal Article
This article discusses Project ECHO’s expansion in the U.S. Pacific Northwest in 2009. Weekly videoconferences focused on hepatitis C, chronic pain, integrated addictions and psychiatry, and HIV/AIDS.
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
If a public opinion survey had included only landline telephone users, it would have underestimated support for health care coverage reforms by 1.7 to 3.3 percent, according to this study analyzing wireless versus landline respondents to the 2007 New Jersey Health Care Opinion Poll.
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
May 19, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO enables specialists to partner with primary care clinicians in underserved areas to deliver complex specialty care to patients.
June 11, 2010 | Journal Article
Specialized treatment for chronic conditions is often available only at large academic medical centers. Project ECHO is training primary care physicians in rural areas of New Mexico to deliver best practice care for many diseases.
October 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Researchers have been developing information and communication technologies (ICTs) to help diabetes patients keep track of what they eat. This study obtained feedback from patients who tested three new design concepts.