VGo Communications Inc. is teaming with Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire to offer telepresence robots to patients. Four remotely-driven robots will be deployed, not to replace nurses, but to allow patients to access various professional caregivers in addition to – and in the presence of – their visiting nurse.
Bringing dental care services to elderly, disabled, and homebound patients is the mission of Ohana Dental Hygiene Practice (Garden Grove, CA). Due to the fact that oral health is vital to overall systemic health, ignoring it can cause many medical complications. Ohana Dental Hygiene Practice makes dental hygiene services more accessible to this group of […]
Unity Health System has been committed to using home care technology for several years. To further reduce paperwork and control mileage reimbursement expenses, home care and hospice divisions of the the western New York provider recently implemented the point-of-care visit manager from CellTrak™ on secure BlackBerry smart phones over the Verizon network. In addition […]
Do You Know What’s in Your Health Record? Share Your Story and Win Cash Prizes The “What’s In Your Record? Video Challenge” [sponsored by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology] invites you to create a short video sharing a personal story about how getting access to view your health record and knowing […]
By Audrey Kinsella The mobile personal emergency response system from GreatCall, “5Star Urgent Response™,” is now available through Independa, the companies announced earlier this month. Through a combination of mobile and GPS technologies, elderly clients can not only live safely at home but can continue to perform their day-to-day activiites away from wireline phones and […]
It can no longer be said that major HIPAA disasters happen to other people, people in the news, not “good agencies like ours.” They did happen to people you know, people just like you, just last month. If it could happen to Northwestern Memorial Hospital Hospice in Chicago and Hartford Hospital and VNA HealthCare in […]
Every election is determined by the people who show up. —Larry J. Sabato, politics professor, University of Virginia In a year when several states have passed laws making it more difficult for Americans to exercise their right to vote, the ability to cast a vote may become top of mind for the people we in […]
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that, as of July 1, 89 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) began serving 1.2 million Medicare beneficiaries in 40 states and the District of Columbia. ACOs are organizations formed by groups of doctors and other health care providers that have agreed to work together to coordinate […]
