Home Healthcare Partners is approaching one million patient days with its remote monitoring program. With 11,000 telehealth episodes completed, it has a mountain of data to use when it approaches hospitals with its value proposition. Not the least of its accomplishments is a 6% rehospitalization rate, coupled with a 15% rate among non-monitored patients. How did this Dallas area agency accomplish this?
— Philips creates reference design for ZigBee Health Care standard
— PHT Corporation and Entra Health Form Strategic Partnership to Provide Integrated Clinical Trials Technology for Diabetes
— CellTrak to implement for Canadian provider
Quietly but steadily, 10-year old Cardiocom has grown from a specialty company offering telehealth systems to managed care companies to a full-service hardware manufacturing and software development company with a nurse call center service and a growing list of enterprise clients, including large home health care organizations.
Philips is a company to watch. There is at least one Philips product somewhere in nearly every U.S. household. At that size, one can be sure the company can have powerful influence in healthcare. This video conversation with Philips Healthcare Home Telehealth Solutions marketing manager Mike Lemnitzer offers some clues about the Dutch company’s plans.
Jonathan Linkous is an international leader, respected by doctors, hospital executives, post-acute executives and medical technology entrepreneurs worldwide. In this exclusive video conversation with HCTR, he makes clear the ATA’s commitment to home health care and the promotion of home telehealth systems. Recorded May 18, 2010 at the ATA 15th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
One of the largest technology companies with a home health and hospice software division has announced it will merge with one of the largest hospital software vendors in a $1.3 billion, all-stock transaction. With a combined client base that will total 1,500 hospitals, 10,000 post-acute organizations and 180,000 physicians, the new company will begin to focus on developing a single, common patient record system.
After 28 years serving home health care providers with software systems for startups and multi-office corporations, Jeff Lewis has sold his company, Lewis, Inc., to Ozark, Missouri-based HealthcareFirst. In an exclusive HCTR interview, Lewis and HealthcareFirst CEO Bobby Robertson describe their plans for the combined company.
After more than 40 years providing software systems to home health care organizations, the Altoona, Pennsylvania-based technology company has introduced a subscription software system for hospice houses.
