If there were awards for best new company name, the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare in Boston, would win for 2010. “Healthrageous” has just completed a significant round of financing and will soon bring to market “personalized, interactive, motivational self-management tools to help individuals shed unhealthy habits, improve their adherence to medical advice and embrace healthy lifestyles.”
New terms always make interesting news. At the ATA meeting last month we learned about “Proactive Passive Monitoring.” These are systems that deploy unobtrusive “person sensitive” sensors, strategically placed in the living space, to monitor motion, impact, bed, door and threshold, motion/temperature and motion/humidity, delivering readings to a central observer. Staff writer Sylvia Talkington’s interview with one of the developer’s of the concept had a lot to say last month about how well we anticipate the needs of elderly persons living alone.
Familiar PERS systems typically place the base station in the middle of the house. The elderly person living alone wears a pendant that opens a phone line on the base and is powerful enough to hear and be heard from several feet away. A five-year old Virginia company had a different idea. At the recent ATA annual meeting, LogicMark demonstrated a PERS with the phone in the pendant. Staff writer Sylvia Talkington spoke with company president Mark Gottlieb last month in San Antonio.
ZOE® fluid monitoring technology can detect a CHF exacerbation a full two weeks prior to the onset of weight gain. Now, thanks to an arrangement with Philips, more patients will have access to ZOE® monitors and Philips’ home health care agency customers will benefit from a smooth data flow from one to the other.
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.
