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Christopher Nerney

Chris Nerney is a veteran technology journalist specializing in healthcare technologies, including EHRs, health information exchanges, revenue cycle software, patient portals and wearables. Chris is a major content contributor to HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), a non-profit organization with more than 61,000 members dedicated to improving the quality, cost-effectiveness, access and value of healthcare through IT.

Posts By Christopher Nerney

Hospital

Can Mobile Apps and Wearables Reduce Hospital Readmission Rates?

As patients' involvement in their own healthcare grows, providers are looking to wearables and mobile apps as a way to reduce hospital readmission rates.

Telehealth

Digital Health Tech Takes Off in Clinical Trials and Pharmaceuticals

Digital health tech is moving beyond the consumer market as providers and pharmaceutical companies embrace wearables.

Healthcare

A Digital Health Advisor: The Next Logical Step in Healthcare Technology

A digital health advisor could provide a crucial link connecting healthcare consumers with the medical system in a way that saves money and improves care.

Apps for disease management are drastically underused, with the majority of the population opting to use lifestyle health apps.
Personal Healthcare Technology

Digital Health Tools Used More for Lifestyle Than Disease Management

Health-related mobile devices, apps and wearables offer people with chronic conditions effective disease management tools, but few are opting to use them.

Digital healthcare has improved the communication between patients and providers, resulting in both groups becoming more knowledgable and better informed.
Healthcare

How Digital Healthcare Helps Patients and Providers

Digital healthcare (or connected care) enables patients and providers to easily share information, improving processes and outcomes.

In-home care technology is enabling patients' health to be monitored from the comfort of their homes.
Personal Healthcare Technology

How Technology is Keeping In-Home Care Patients Out of the Hospital

Tablets are enabling healthcare providers to offer preventative services to in-home care patients with chronic illnesses.