The least safe place to locate a computer loaded with personally identifiable patient health information is outside the protective walls of a clinic, hospital or office. In home care and hospice, the nature of the service dictates that computers — laptop, tablet or handheld — be located outside the office most of the time. This […]
The Center for Technology and Aging (the Center) recently awarded $477,000 in grants to support the use of remote patient monitoring technologies. Now the Oakland, California organization dedicated to helping improve the quality of home- and community-based care for seniors has announced it will give away another half million.
On January 14-15, 2010, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) met to discuss and vote on Medicare payment and policy recommendations for its March 2010 report to Congress. MedPAC has released a summary of the recommendations voted on during that meeting, which include recommendations for home health agencies and hospices.
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Jan Erickson was a volunteer caregiver. Answering her church’s call to be of service to the elderly and infirm, she worked with a number of women, one of whom broke her heart before inspiring her to dream, literally. That dream became a specialty clothing company with which home health care and hospice nurses and therapists […]
Dear Home Care Colleague, One of the exciting aspects of home care and hospice technology is that new technologies appear so frequently. There is always something new to learn, something new to tell you about. Sometimes I feel like a baseball scout. (Hey! You should see this kid down in Carthage. What an arm! I […]
Cisco took its video-based medical communications system to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, signaling its long-range intention to market a version of the system, which many have seen Jack Bauer use on TV’s “24,” directly to the public.
Calling it “the world’s largest trial of remote monitoring of home-based, chronically-ill patients,” Philips has launched a research project in the United Kingdom. More than 400 patients in three England regions will be given home telehealth monitoring equipment and their frequency of hospital use and overall cost to Britain’s National Health Service will be tracked.
Two nurses have won recognition as emerging leaders in the field of nursing informatics, selected by the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) to participate in a jointly supported Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program. ANI and its Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program are jointly supported by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
The way most people store their signed and notarized Advance Directive (AD) documents makes it unlikely the documents will be at hand when needed. No one carries the document with them everywhere they go, nor is anyone standing near their home filing cabinet or bank safe deposit box when they come face to face with end of life decisions. On February 1, a new technology will be introduced to solve that problem.
