CITPH is a finalist for The McKesson Foundation’s Mobilizing for Healthsm Grant Program. The study, Mobilizing Family Health Centers of San Diego for Health, will deploy an interactive mobile health information service, in order to demonstrate among a largely Hispanic population with type 2 diabetes the intervention’s effectiveness in improving HbA1c levels, reducing “no show… Read More
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CITPH, in collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research, has been selected by the Health Resources Services Administration to conduct a national evaluation of the implementation and effects of the Text4babysm text messaging program. Text4Baby is an innovative health communication tool that uses mobile technology to reach pregnant and post-partum women. Text4Baby is currently used by over… Read More
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 Category: home page, mHealth No Comments 
Evidence is emerging that several new technologies, including remote patient-monitoring devices, medication optimization systems, and tools that improve caregiver-to-caregiver and caregiver-to-patient communications, can significantly reduce the need for hospital readmissions and lower costs by enabling a greater level of care coordination and integration. However, providers and researchers lack sufficient information about the best ways to… Read More
Monday, September 13th, 2010 Category: 30-day Readmissions, home page, Targeted Initiatives 1 Comment
In association with the Center for Technology and Aging, a grantee of The SCAN Foundation that is devoted to the diffusion of technology to help older adults live independently, CITPH recently hosted a panel of experts to identify ways to deliver better care for older adults. Entitled “The SCAN Foundation Technology Summit: Enhancing Social Action… Read More
Monday, September 13th, 2010 Category: home page, Targeted Initiatives, Tech Summit No Comments
This report summarizes the best thinking on key trends, challenges, identifies the opportunities local leaders find most promising to improve access to medical care services, to improve health outcomes, and to contain the cost of health, and provides their suggestions on how CDC (and potentially other components of the federal government) can best assist with… Read More
Monday, September 13th, 2010 Category: Health Reform and Local Health Departments, home page, Targeted Initiatives No Comments
The National Quality Forum commissioned PHI to develop a profile of available information technologies that healthcare organizations may implement in part or as integrated systems to support real-time infection prevention, control, surveillance, and process improvement. The purpose of this report was to provide an environmental assessment of the commercial availability and extent of adoption of… Read More
Monday, September 13th, 2010 Category: AIIMS, home page, Targeted Initiatives No Comments
This report, which was conducted for Lehigh Valley Hospital and El Camino Hospital, assessed the role of ICT in the development of applications for the management of chronic diseases. The goal was to raise general awareness of the role of ICT in the management of chronic diseases and to highlight the promise that two technology… Read More
Monday, September 13th, 2010 Category: home page, ICT in Chronic Disease Management, Targeted Initiatives No Comments
In preparation for a strategic planning process that will incorporate a wide range of stakeholders and elements of its organization, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona asked the Health Technology Center (HealthTech) to conduct research on the innovation management practices of leading US healthcare organizations, with a specific emphasis on approaches to strategic planning and the integration… Read More
Monday, September 13th, 2010 Category: Health Care Organization Profiles, home page, Targeted Initiatives No Comments
As older adults face continuing economic, social and health-related challenges, information and communications technology holds great potential for facilitating organizing and social action for this age group. The relationship between social action, technology and older Americans was the subject of a May 2010 expert panel convened by the Center for Technology and Aging on behalf… Read More
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 Tags: technology summit, webinar
Category: home page, Tech Summit No Comments
