Partners Pledges Support for New National Consumer eHealth Campaign
Recently, the White House invited Partners HealthCare, via our Center for Connected Health, to help launch a Consumer eHealth Program designed to educate and engage consumers and health care providers...
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Text Messaging Program for Pregnant Women Expands to Jamaica Plain
Earlier this year, I wrote about a pilot program at the Lynn Community Health Center that uses text messaging to encourage pregnant women to receive the proper amount of pre-natal care. The messages...
View ArticleAn Innovative Database for Cancer Research
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have launched an exciting new research effort in cancer genomics that should generate leads for the development of better, more...
View ArticleCBS News Recognizes Brigham and Women’s Among Nation’s Top Health Stories in...
As the year comes to a close, it is an appropriate time to look back at some of the ways that Partners HealthCare’s world-class hospitals, clinicians, researchers and other team members helped change...
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Doctors and Patients Get Online
At Partners HealthCare, we’re constantly looking for ways to use technology to improve the patient experience. Systems like electronic medical records and patient portals make it easier for us to...
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Better Clinical Outcomes via Home Monitoring: Diabetes Connect
A former executive with the American Diabetes Association, Richard Kahn, MD, recently came under fire for his comments about the value of weight loss in managing diabetes. He said that even though...
View ArticleElectronic Medical Records Are Improving Care
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune detailed findings from a new study that suggests that doctors order fewer lab tests when they have access to a patient’s electronic medical record (EMR). The...
View ArticlePartners to Adopt New Electronic Health Records
Information is the lifeblood of medicine. Ask any doctor or nurse. They’ll tell you that clinicians are only as good as the information they have about their patients. A doctor, nurse or hospital can’t...
View ArticlePersonalized Genetic Medicine Expands at Partners
Part of the mission of Partners HealthCare is to stay at the edge of research and discovery and to use new innovations and technologies to help. In today’s medicine, that means genetic research and...
View ArticleThe New Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Our Work with Marathon Survivors
As I write this, 32 Boston Marathon bombing survivors have received care in the new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, the newest rehabilitation hospital in the world. And just as having several...
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How Population Health Management Is Making a Difference for One Patient
Too often, patients only receive medical treatment in their doctors' offices, and for some patients, doctor visits are so infrequent that when they do occur, they take place in the emergency room. As...
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Still Going Strong with Population Health Management
Phil Tropeano, 91, spends a lot of his time with Fay, his 6-year-old Siberian husky, whom he recently adopted. “A dog is an important thing in a guy’s life,” he says. It’s been a good year for Philip...
View ArticleGetting Care Beyond the Doctor’s Office with Connected Health
At Partners HealthCare, we’re redesigning care to make it easier for patients to get (and stay) healthy. Technology provides a variety of methods for patients and caregivers to communicate beyond the...
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Supporting and Accelerating Innovation at Community Health Centers in...
Yesterday we awarded the second round of grants to health centers across the state as part of the Partnership for Community Health. Together with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers...
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Staying Out of the Hospital
On a recent Sunday in August, Philip Tropeano gathered with nearly 50 family members and friends to celebrate his 92nd birthday. There was also an extra reason to blow out the candles – the birth of...
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Partnering with Patients for the Future of Medical Research
Dr. Elizabeth Karlson with a Biobank participant At Partners, we’re committed to investing in cutting-edge research while also striving to improve efficiencies. The Partners HealthCare Biobank is one...
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How Can We Improve Health Outcomes with Personal Health Trackers?
The idea of helping individuals use activity trackers to improve their health and wellness is something we are passionate about at Partners HealthCare Connected Health. It's been well documented that...
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An Investment That Will Revolutionize Patient Care
Over the weekend, we continued the rollout of a new integrated electronic records management system that represents one of the most important investments in quality and safety that we have ever made....
View ArticleInvestigating the Impact of Genomic Testing
With whole genome sequencing, it’s possible to tell patients years in advance what their future health may hold in store for them. But these possibilities raise new questions about the right way to...
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