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We are engaging patients, providers and the connected health community to deliver quality care outside of traditional medical settings. Telehealth, remote care and disease management initiatives reflect the opportunities for technology-enabled care programs. Join us - share your thoughts, learn from others - help transform healthcare.

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Who Provides, Who Decides, Who Pays: Consumers, Clinicians & Business Models in the Connected Care Era
October 27-28, 2008, The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA. 
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Partners HealthCare 2007 Annual Report

Two of the Center for Connected for Health's programs, Connected Cardiac Care and SmartBeat, are featured in Partners HealthCare's 2007 annual report. See sections "Some employers make an extra effort to control rising health care premiums" and "10% of patients are chronically ill."

6th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality - August 4-5, 2008, Boston

The Summit convenes the nation's top thought leaders to address the next stage of healthcare quality by exploring the evolution of such topics like pay-for-performance, value-based purchasing, the personalized medical home, high performance networks, public reporting and data exchange for optimal care. Save an additional $200.00 off with promotional code NQU859! For more information, please click here.

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Friday, June 20, 2008 - Partners Online Specialty Consultations, a service provided by the Center for Connected Health, was ...

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - The Center for Connected Health was one of 15 Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund request for propo ...

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Sunday, May 18, 2008 - As wireless networks proliferate, the cellphone finds a niche next to the stethoscope as a medical ...

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Can Connected Health survive the political economy of health care?

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Matthew Holt  | 2 Comments

While on an micro-level no-one can argue with, for example, an online monitoring program preventing an elderly congestive heart failure patient's hospital admission, on a macro-level fewer hospital admissions and fewer procedures mean less money for hospitals and surgeons. So as the current pilots of connected health start delivering data we must be prepared for two results....Continue Reading

 
 

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