Kate Spies

By  Kate Spies 09:38 am July 12, 2012
The Department of Veterans' Affairs has launched the Specialty Care Access Network – Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO). The program will leverage cutting-edge telehealth technology to provide specialty, comprehensive care to veterans regardless of where they live. The VA’s implementation marks the first nationwide extension of ECHO. Sanjeev Arora, MD, an innovator and liver...
By  Kate Spies 09:42 am June 26, 2012
The 532-bed hospital will be extending its communication capabilities through new smartphone solutions from Amcom Software. The hospital will be adding to its already-established Amcom database to increase communication speed and physician connectivity through smartphone applications and web-based on-call scheduling. With a need for constant connection at the hospital, said Cathy Rammelsberg, St...
By  Kate Spies 06:41 pm June 24, 2011
A health portal used by patients and doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is now accessible on iPhones and iPads, thanks to the new mobile HealthTrak application. With its innovative approach to managing patient health - through technology like eVisits and tethered records - easy access to the portal is becoming more important than ever.  UPMC is one of the nation's...