Articles by John Morrissey

Hospitals and physicians challenge the use of 5 common tests and treatments

Providers are ready to accelerate their use of telehealth, but is the vendor community ready to rise to the occasion?

Telehealth is poised to be a breakthrough technology that enables providers to reduce costs and improve care, say attendees at the American Telemedicine Association annual conference.

Mobile devices in provider settings are packed with potential for good, but their ultimate value depends entirely on factors that have nothing to do with the cool factor.

Mobile apps are giving clinicians a better handle on how patients move through the continuum.

mHealth applications are starting to penetrate the inpatient environment with unique ways to perform existing work better and more efficiently.

Regulatory clouds part for mHealth apps, but barriers for full integration remain.

With 8 months before curtain goes up on ICD-10, it's rehearsal time for hospital clinicians and coders

mHealth has proliferated, but what promise does it hold for the hospital setting?

Thanks to the provisions in the Affordable Care Act  and a mission to improve outcomes, providers are integrating behavioral and medical health care. That can lead to fewer readmissions and lower costs. Some hospitals and partner providers already have taken strides in that direction.

This month's article looks at clearing the barriers to hospital-physician connectivity.

Well-informed post-acute care is crucial to keeping a still vulnerable patient stable and improving after an inpatient stay.

Advances in the delivery of health care through telemedicine are powering not just individual patient visits.

It is time to stop dismissing telemedicine as a mere technology option

Geisinger Health Plan and its staff of case managers use telemonitoring to supplement nurse efforts to reach patients discharged from Geisinger Health System hospitals in central Pennsylvania.

The proliferation of cellphones, their morphing into miniature computers and the addition of wireless tablet computers have become a ready base for health-related information interchange.

Electronic tools for patient engagement are mostly in the early figuring-out stage, but the tools' benefits are well worth waiting for.

Organizing for the team-oriented tenets of a patient-centered medical home involves a whole lot more sophistication than is typically found in primary care physician practices, especially when it comes to health information technology.

H&HN, with the support of AT&T, has created this yearlong series called Connecting the Continuum to explore how hospitals and health systems are addressing the care continuum in their strategic and operational plans.

H&HN, with the support of AT&T, has created this yearlong series called Connecting the Continuum to explore how hospitals and health systems are addressing the care continuum in their strategic and operational plans.