Health Monitoring Systems

Congrats to finalist, Health-Monitoring, Innovator of the Year, Health IT. https://buff.ly/2xD1Vm9

Health Monitoring is in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today for our work to track opioid-related ER visits. Check it out!

Program to track hospital visits for opioid use A Pittsburgh-based company will help officials in Pennsylvania and Ohio track the number of people who visit hospitals for opioid-related reasons. Health Monitoring will provide ...

Health Monitoring has been working hard on the drug overdose problem in Ohio. The Ohio Department was asked what they are doing and their answer (in part): EpiCenter.

Take a look at what Ohio is doing to monitor drug overdoses in the state.

Ohio now getting alerts when overdoses spike Ohio has begun tracking drug overdoses in real time in the same way it tracks other illnesses like the flu.

To Carly Fiorina,

PolitiFact rated the assertion that emergency department visits were up 50% under the ACA as "mostly false". And, frankly, we did too. It honestly looks like a simple misunderstanding of an ACEP study reporting that 56% of emergency doctors believe they are busier than they were before.

But who has the actual numbers? Mike Baldyga, ACEP spokesperson, spoke with FactCheck.org on this important topic, and indicated that the CDC is 3 years behind in tabulating statistics on emergency department visits.

The data does exist—in the private sector. Our company covers 12.5% of the U.S. population, receiving data from nearly 600 emergency departments in real-time.

With the seismic changes affecting healthcare, we don't have three years to wait for answers. The policy implications of the ACA and CMS changes need to be understood now.

We need greater insight into policy outcomes and political leaders who understand technology and focus on data-driven results more than on ideology.

Kevin Hutchison, CEO

Politifact rated Carly Fiorina's claim that emergency department visits are up 50% under the ACA as "Mostly False". Good work, Politifact but we'd rate the claim plain ol' "false".

Health Monitoring Systems has access to over 500 hospitals and routinely tracks emergency department visits providing one of the best resources for evaluation of the ACA's impact on emergency department utilization and readmissions.

For the original Politifact rating, see here: http://goo.gl/RDEUlA

Syndromic Surveillance: Insights into Healthcare Policy Health Monitoring Systems is discovering that syndromic surveillance can also provide a rich source of information for public policy. Recently an American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) stu...